Compile to avoid core generation

[Simon Waters]

Francisco Jorge wrote:
> 
> Thanks for the answers.
> 
> I will upgrade to bind 9 in a near future, but I was only searching
> for a temporal workaround.

In directory where core dump occurs.
su root 
mkdir core ; chmod 000 core

That is a cheap and nasty anti-core dump trick, better than
making a file as you add "-type f" to the find statement in the
script that finds and removes core dumps (assuming you have
one), amongst other reasons.

named really shouldn't crash. 
Are you sure that version doesn't have known security flaws!