From Bugzilla Helper: User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:1.3a) Gecko/20021212 K-Meleon/0.7 Description of problem: Fully up2date Red Hat 7.1, Running kernel -> 2.4.20-18.7 - no X-windows. Information. ============ I run just a DNS caching only server for 6 machines on local home network. Output from rndc. ================= [root@Linux233 rpm]# rndc status number of zones: 4 debug level: 0 xfers running: 0 xfers deferred: 0 soa queries in progress: 0 query logging is OFF server is up and running The problem. ============ Occasionally, maybe 70 - 90 days uptime, bind will crash with this in /var/log/messages: Jun 26 13:04:52 Linux233 named[729]: mem.c:653: INSIST(ctx->stats[size].gets > 0) failed Jun 26 13:04:52 Linux233 named[729]: exiting (due to assertion failure) I cannot find a way to replicate this, as it happens so rarely and always when I am AFK. No core file is produced. I filed a bug report with the ISC-Bugs people, but was recommended to update to BIND 9.2.2 - which Red Hat does not yet have a release for. Regards, Nick Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): BIND 9.2.1 How reproducible: Couldn't Reproduce Additional info: Reply from ISC-Bugs people: If you have a core dump then please send a stack backtrace. The error indicates that a block of memory is being freed twice or being freed with the wrong size tag, Upgrade. The current release is BIND 9.2.2. -- Mark Andrews, Internet Software Consortium 1 Seymour St., Dundas Valley, NSW 2117, Australia PHONE: +61 2 9871 4742 INTERNET: Mark.Andrews
bind 9.2.2 is available on rawhide. http://rawhide.redhat.com/pub/redhat/linux/rawhide/i386/RedHat/RPMS/bind-9.2.2-15.i386.rpm
OK. But there is a huge dependency trail on RH 7.1 with this. Need the new GLIBC libaries... Nick