BIND 9.8.0 + openssl 1.0.0d + chroot == "issues"

Mark Andrews marka at isc.org
Wed Apr 20 00:11:21 UTC 2011


In message <4DADFB29.6080508 at dougbarton.us>, Doug Barton writes:
> I have had 2 reports now of people using BIND 9.8.0 on FreeBSD compiled 
> against openssl 1.0.0d not being able to chroot unless they copy 
> $PREFIX/lib/engines/libgost.so into the chroot environment. 
> Traditionally, copying libs into the chroot directory has not been 
> necessary, so I'm curious. Building 9.8 against the default openssl in 
> the FreeBSD base (0.9.8q) I have not experienced this problem.
> 
> I haven't actually tried this with 1.0.0d myself yet, so I thought I'd 
> ask about it here first before filing a bug report. Could this be a 
> (previously unknown form of) user error? Or is it an actual BIND bug (or 
> an openssl bug for that matter)?

It's a matter of how OpenSSL is built.  You can build openssl with
gost as a dynamically loaded engine or you can build openssl with
the engines already linked in.

Gost, unlike the rest of the crypto, is implemented as a engine.
 
> Thanks,
> 
> Doug
> 
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