turning a dead horse into a wet spot on the ground (in-line)...
-----Original Message----- From: Oscar Ricardo Silva <osi...@scuff.cc.utexas.edu> Date: Tuesday, July 17, 2012 7:13 AM To: "'bind-users@lists.isc.org'" <bind-users@lists.isc.org> Subject: Re: 9.8.2 Assertion Failures >Bailey, Morgan [BT] wrote: >> Hi all >> >> >> >> We have recently made some major changes to our DNS infrastructure. >> This involved consolidating servers and standardizing on a single RHEL6 >> platform. We currently running the latest RHEL6 packaged BIND release >> of 9.8.2 (9.8.2rc1-RedHat-9.8.2-0.10.rc1.el6). Lately on one of our >> busier names servers the named daemon has been crashing with assertion >> errors. Here is a recent log snippet: >> >> >This appears to be the same problem we're experiencing on RHEL6. This >bug WAS fixed in bind 9.8.2rc2 AND the final 9.8.2 BUT Redhat decided to >use 9.8.2rc1 as the base for their bind package. I can't shake my head >enough trying to figure out why they would use a release candidate but >that's what was done. > >Anyway, Redhat is working on a patch for this and it should be released >"soon". > ><https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=837165> just to ensure it's clear for posterity (i've seen it mis-stated a few times)... and to point out another common frustration with RHEL -- the package version itself of "9.8.2rc2" is no real indication of what version you're running on this platform. you have to dig through the errata on RHN to figure out what patches your sub-package (e.g. -0.10) actually contains. within the RHEL community you can find lots of vehement advocacy for this approach, and i really don't want to be involved in that argument, but for the most part it makes RHEL version numbers meaningless to the larger community. i am glad to see there's an official fix in the pipeline...but this frustration is one reason we maintain our own packages. with the tarballs and easy build process from ISC, generating the required spec file is easy...and lets you control pre/post-install steps. it's also easy to host your own yum repo, and tie that into cfengine, puppet, etc. _______________________________________________ Please visit https://lists.isc.org/mailman/listinfo/bind-users to unsubscribe from this list bind-users mailing list bind-users@lists.isc.org https://lists.isc.org/mailman/listinfo/bind-users
