Package: bind9 Version: 1:9.3.2-1bpo1 Severity: critical Justification: breaks the whole system
Hi I just found and could reproduce a very strange problem. We use bind for a DNS RBL. We store additional information like a timestamp inside a TXT record of an entry... Usually bind uses about 200MB Memory and has no problem at all with zone files of the size of about 100MB. Now we had a situation where 20000 TXT entries were generated on a single hostname within one of the zonefiles. If you then tryed to delete all those entries in one go: nsupdate > update delete host.example.com. > This caused bind to use up to 3GB of memory, stopping answering queries or accepting updates for several minutes up to hours... This could be reproduced several times. After manualy deleting the entries from the zone file. Operation resumed to normal. Any idea? Sounds like a severe bug to me. -Benoit- -- System Information: Debian Release: 3.1 Architecture: i386 (i686) Kernel: Linux 2.6.16.11 Locale: LANG=en_US, LC_CTYPE=en_US (charmap=ISO-8859-1) Versions of packages bind9 depends on: ii adduser 3.63 Add and remove users and groups ii libbind9-0 1:9.3.2-1bpo1 BIND9 Shared Library used by BIND ii libc6 2.3.2.ds1-22sarge3 GNU C Library: Shared libraries an ii libdns21 1:9.3.2-1bpo1 DNS Shared Library used by BIND ii libisc11 1:9.3.2-1bpo1 ISC Shared Library used by BIND ii libisccc0 1:9.3.2-1bpo1 Command Channel Library used by BI ii libisccfg1 1:9.3.2-1bpo1 Config File Handling Library used ii liblwres9 1:9.3.2-1bpo1 Lightweight Resolver Library used ii libssl0.9.7 0.9.7e-3sarge1 SSL shared libraries ii lsb-base 3.1-4bpo1 Linux Standard Base 3.1 init scrip ii netbase 4.21 Basic TCP/IP networking system -- no debconf information -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
