Bind 9.5.0-P1 WinNT version - Crashes

[Vinny Abello]

There is currently no patched working version of BIND available for the Windows platform from my own tests and many others who have responded to me. 9.4.2-P1, 9.5.0-P1 and the 9.5.1 betas all seem to have issues with stability or memory utilization that makes them unstable. 9.4.2 is perfectly stable in our environment. We're contemplating switching to FreeBSD for the OS on our recursive name servers.

-Vinny

> -----Original Message-----
> From: bind-users-bounce at isc.org [mailto:bind-users-bounce at isc.org] On
> Behalf Of Radim Hajek
> Sent: Saturday, July 26, 2008 4:41 AM
> To: bind-users at isc.org
> Subject: Bind 9.5.0-P1 WinNT version - Crashes
>
> Hello,
>
> after upgrading bind to last 9.5.0-P1 on one of our Windows 2003
> server BIND starts crashing several times a day.
>
> Faulting application named.exe, version 0.0.0.0, faulting module
> ntdll.dll, version 5.2.3790.3959, fault address 0x0002a36b.
>
> There are NO errors in bind log, except one, BUT it doesnt
> correspond to other crashes...
> 25-Jul-2008 16:04:28.864 critical: ..\mem.c:1716: INSIST(mpctx-
> >freecount > 0)
> failed
> 25-Jul-2008 16:04:28.864 critical: exiting (due to assertion failure)
>
> I have found another messages from users who have the
> same problem in another lists - but no answers.
>
> Thanks
>
> Radim Hajek
>