BIND from brew on OSX - Crash

[Casey Deccio]

> On Jul 24, 2025, at 1:00 AM, stuart--- via bind-users <bind-users at lists.isc.org> wrote:
> 
> This is mostly just me wondering if this is just a "me" issue or whether this is endemic of BIND on OSX.
> 
> I use BIND as distributed by brew.sh on OSX (14.7.6, M2 Pro) for local testing of various things and ran into an issue last week. When I configured BIND to listen on an alternate port (1053 or 2053 or ..., you get the idea), after a few queries, it would cause a panic and thus a reboot of my computer.

Definitely not just a "you" issue.  I saw this last September because I was using named -- installed with brew -- as part of the tests associated with the DNSViz package for Homebrew.  The package tests start named on a custom port and issue queries to it.  Running those tests crashed the entire test system [1].  I didn't spend time looking more into it, and I forgotten about it until I read this message...  I'm curious what is causing that full system crash.

Casey

[1] https://github.com/Homebrew/homebrew-core/pull/192074#issuecomment-2378724430
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