Bind 8.1.2 in.named memory leak in Solaris 7

[Joaquim Eudes Mendes Gomide]

Hi William

Thanks for the information. The patch 106938-02 corrects the problem.

Joaquim Gomide

"William P. Malloy" wrote:

> In article <37FDEA86.C429C61E at bancobrasil.com.br> you write:
> >I got an article on Sunsolve that says:
> >"The DNS process in.named continually consumes memory until no memory
> >is available. At this point in.named terminates leaving a possibly large
> >core file."
> >Is this problem a Bind 8.1.2  or a Solaris version of Bind bug? The same
> >article says that there is no work around, too.
> >Does the Bind 8.2 solves this problem? Is there any Solaris compiled
> >version to download? Is there any Solaris patch? I'm looking for a patch
> >with my reseler too.
>
> Does not Sunsolve also list patch 106938-02 (for sparc) 106938-02 (X86)
> which fixes this bug (it is actually in libresolv)?
> 4211042 Bind 8.1.2 in.named memory leak in Solaris 7
>
> It has been out since June 8th and I thought was one of the Recommended
> Patches.
> There is also an in.named patch 107018-01 (but it fixes a different bug)
>
> BTW Go to http://access1.sun.com/ and get the Patch reports for each
> release.
> I can not believe this is a Recommended Patch, probably because most
> machines
> are not running in.named, and a memory leak is not considered "serious"
> enough?
>
> =wpm    William P. Malloy

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