bind keeps failing

[Brad Knowles]

At 4:02 PM +0800 4/9/01, Carl Filpo wrote:

>  I keep having to issue an "ndc restart" command -
>
>  My dns just suddenly stops working (bind 8.2.2) - nothing
>  in the logs indicates any errors.

	This is an indicator that someone is trying to hack your 
nameserver -- see <http://www.cert.org/advisories/CA-2001-02.html> 
and <http://www.cert.org/incident_notes/IN-2001-03.html>.

	At the very least, upgrade to 8.2.3-REL, or perhaps 9.1.1-REL.

-- 
Brad Knowles, <brad.knowles at skynet.be>

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