From Bugzilla Helper: User-Agent: Mozilla/4.76 [de] (X11; U; Linux 2.4.0-0.99.11error1 i686) After update 7.0 -> 7.0.90 (fisher) dig crashes and dumps core when using a fqhn as @nameserver. That down't happen if you use the IP-address instead of the nameservers FQHN. Example: dig @ns1.so36.net www.so36.net crashes, dig @212.84.245.4 www.so36.net not. Reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. dig @fqhn any.host Actual Results: core dumped (SIGSEGV) Program terminated with signal 11, Segmentation fault. Expected Results: nameserver query about a host [ths@error ths]$ gdb dig core GNU gdb 5.0 Copyright 2000 Free Software Foundation, Inc. GDB is free software, covered by the GNU General Public License, and you are welcome to change it and/or distribute copies of it under certain conditions. Type "show copying" to see the conditions. There is absolutely no warranty for GDB. Type "show warranty" for details. This GDB was configured as "i386-redhat-linux"...(no debugging symbols found)... Core was generated by `dig @ns1.so36.net www.so36.net'. Program terminated with signal 11, Segmentation fault. Reading symbols from /usr/lib/libdns.so.3...(no debugging symbols found)...done. Loaded symbols for /usr/lib/libdns.so.3 Reading symbols from /lib/libnsl.so.1...done. Loaded symbols for /lib/libnsl.so.1 Reading symbols from /lib/libpthread.so.0...done. warning: Unable to set global thread event mask: generic error [New Thread 1024 (LWP 1374)] Error while reading shared library symbols: Can't attach LWP 1374: No such process Reading symbols from /usr/lib/libisc.so.3...done. Loaded symbols for /usr/lib/libisc.so.3 Reading symbols from /lib/libc.so.6...done. Loaded symbols for /lib/libc.so.6 Reading symbols from /lib/ld-linux.so.2...done. Loaded symbols for /lib/ld-linux.so.2 #0 0x402e40ee in __select () from /lib/libc.so.6 (gdb)
Update your glibc.
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