BIND from brew on OSX - Crash

[Petr Špaček]

On 30. 07. 25 22:24, Casey Deccio wrote:
> 
>> 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.

We have identified MacOS kernel bug and reported it to Apple many months 
ago, but it goes unfixed for a long time. Complain to Apple support ...

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Petr Špaček