There exists pound 2.4 in F9. However in recent versions some things like "fixed problem with back-end killing on failed connect" (2.4.2) were added. Would a new version be possible to ship?
Pound-2.4.3-1.fc9 has been submitted as an update for Fedora 9. http://admin.fedoraproject.org/updates/Pound-2.4.3-1.fc9
Pound-2.4.3-1.fc9 has been pushed to the Fedora 9 testing repository. If problems still persist, please make note of it in this bug report. If you want to test the update, you can install it with su -c 'yum --enablerepo=updates-testing update Pound'. You can provide feedback for this update here: http://admin.fedoraproject.org/updates/F9/FEDORA-2008-8810
Pound-2.4.3-1.fc9 has been pushed to the Fedora 9 stable repository. If problems still persist, please make note of it in this bug report.