On Thursday 22 March 2007 23:32, RW wrote: > On a firewall that is not mine but where the admins run to me for > help 8-) somebody noticed that name resolution was not working. > rc.conf.local says: > named_flags="" > named.conf is the default (caching with recursion only for local > clients) > uname says: > OpenBSD fw.example.com.au 3.9 GENERIC#617 i386 > /var/log/daemon says: > Mar 23 00:13:03 fw named[13888]: > /usr/src/usr.sbin/bind/lib/isc/mem.c:628 > > : INSIST(((unsigned char *)mem)[size] == 0xbe) failed > > Mar 23 00:13:03 fw named[13888]: exiting (due to assertion failure) > > It started up manually and ran as it has for the past (nearly) year, > so it looks like a one-off but I'd love to hear of possible causes. > > Thanks, > Rod/ > > From the land "down under": Australia. > Do we look <umop apisdn> from up over?
Rod, No dmesg? "3.9 GENERIC#617" seems to be an unpached 3.9-RELEASE It may not be the cause but at least it is relevant: http://www.openbsd.org/errata39.html "010: SECURITY FIX: September 8, 2006 All architectures" "Two Denial of Service issues have been found with BIND." HTH, JCR
