Re: Something's happening with named

From: Neil Blakey-Milner (nbm@mithrandr.moria.org)
Date: 03/29/01 

Date: Thu, 29 Mar 2001 19:32:39 +0200
From: Neil Blakey-Milner <nbm@mithrandr.moria.org>
To: James Greenfield <james@pagearts.co.za>

On Thu 2001-03-29 (18:56), James Greenfield wrote:
> I saw the same thing a while back (with the difference being that named
> exited due to a different signal)
>
> messages.0:Mar 11 02:04:36 <hostnameremoved> /kernel: pid 44813 (named), uid
> 0: exited on signal 11 (core dumped)
>
> FreeBSD Version info:
> FreeBSD <hostnameremoved> 4.2-RELEASE FreeBSD 4.2-RELEASE #0: Mon Nov 20
> 13:02:55 GMT 2000 jkh@bento.FreeBSD.org:/usr/src/sys/compile/GENERIC
> i386
>
> named version info:
> named 8.2.3-T6B Mon Nov 20 11:27:49 GMT 2000
> jkh@bento.FreeBSD.org:/usr/obj/usr/src/usr.sbin/named
>
> I did some looking to see if a newer 8.2.3 release was out, but I couldn't
> find a clear explanation of the meaning behind T6B. I see T9B is out (7 and
> 8 apparently being released as betas only?), but I've been unsure of the
> potential impact of an upgrade, and since this hasn't recurred I've left it
> and decided to keep an eye on things until it happens again.
>
> If someone could briefly explain the versioning used by bind, I'd
> appreciated it. Also, is it worth upgrading to T9B (or whatever the latest
> release is)?

8.2.3 > 8.2.3-T6B. Ie, 8.2.3-T6B is before 8.2.3. It has the security
problem. You can install the bind8 port over your current bind
installation. I think it's as simple as "cd /usr/ports/net/bin8 && make
install PREFIX=/usr", but you might have better luck looking at the
archives.

Neil 

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