Bind 9.5.0-P1 Crash 0x000a717c in cleanup_dead_nodes

[JINMEI Tatuya / 神明達哉]

At Tue,  2 Sep 2008 08:51:51 -0500 (CDT),
bsfinkel at anl.gov wrote:

> >Sorry for the trouble.  The diff was against the latest development
> >code (for 9.6).  I didn't thought there was a critical difference
> >between the latest code and 9.5 version of rbtdb.c, but I seemed to be
> >wrong.  I've updated the patch and put it at the same location:
> >
> >http://www.jinmei.org/patch/rbtdb.c.diff
> >
> >Please try this one.
> 
> I have installed the patch along with -P2 on our hidden master.
> Before I installed the patch I tried "rndc dumpdb", but BIND did
> not crash.  I assume that the records in the cache on a hidden master
> are not the type of records that cause a crash.  I will install it
> on our other DNS servers later this week.

This is a timing issue; if you're lucky, rndc dumpdb doesn't
necessarily cause a crash.  "The type of records" wouldn't matter.

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JINMEI, Tatuya
Internet Systems Consortium, Inc.