FW: Beware of bind 9.1.2 ...


Subject: FW: Beware of bind 9.1.2 ...
From: Pete Peters (ppeters914@home.com)
Date: Thu Jun 07 2001 - 09:59:55 MDT


Since they're saying it's a kernel bug, which kernel, and how do you
"get your kernel fixed?"

Pete
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Pete Peters <ppeters914@home.com>
Seattle, Washington, USA
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-----Original Message-----
From: Iain Stevenson [mailto:iain@IainStevenson.com]
Sent: Thursday, June 07, 2001 1:15 AM
To: Yellowdog
Subject: Beware of bind 9.1.2 ...

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

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

Hope this saves someone some time and aggro.

  Iain



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