Beware of bind 9.1.2 ...


Subject: Beware of bind 9.1.2 ...
From: Iain Stevenson (iain@IainStevenson.com)
Date: Thu Jun 07 2001 - 02:14:32 MDT


Bind 9.1.2 seems to suffer from indigestion with Linux. I found it crashed
once a week or thereabouts and posted a byg report. Here is the developers'
reply:

> The Linux kernel has a bug in gettimeofday in that it returns a time with
> a out of range tv_usec field. BIND 9.2 has a work around but you really
> need to get your kernel fixed. You should bring this up with whoever
> supplied your the kernel.
>
> -------------------------------------------- Managed by Request Tracker

Hope this saves someone some time and aggro.

  Iain



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