bind 9.2.1 assertion failure

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On Wednesday 07 December 2011 16:08:54 Mark Andrews wrote:
> In message <87mxb4xm7t.fsf at mid.deneb.enyo.de>, Florian Weimer 
writes:
> > * Mark Andrews:
> > > BIND 9.2.1 was released May 2002 and is no longer supported.
> > 
> > Uhm, there are multiple sources for BIND support.  At least one
> > still provides some coverage for BIND 9.2.
> 
> I wouldn't want to run 9.2.x even if it has all the later security
> fixes backported.  There are too many other fixes that have gone
> into later releases which a pretty critical.

Furthermore, quoting from the OP:

> > > > We upgraded our DNS server from bind 8.2.3 to bind 9.2.1.
> > > > "named" worked without any problem about 1 day. ...

When upgrading, it makes no sense at all to choose an ancient, 
unmaintained version as replacement software.
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