Assertion Failure

[Timothy Holtzen]

Last night one of our name servers stopped unexpectedly.  Looking in the
logs I found the following messages.

Jan 13 20:15:01 foo named[29625]: statschannel.c:696: INSIST(xmlrc >= 0)
failed
Jan 13 20:15:01 foo named[29625]: exiting (due to assertion failure)

Anyone have any idea why this would happen or how I can keep it from
happening again?  I notice that the failure is happening in
statschannel.c.  We are periodically polling the stats channel from a
couple of other systems. Could that be causing it?  Otherwise the system
seemed to run fine for days.  We are running Bind version 9.5.1-P1 on
RHEL 5.2.

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Timothy A. Holtzen
Campus Network Administrator
Nebraska Wesleyan University