Defects Closed in this Release

Table 4-1 “Defects Closed in the Previous Releases” and Table 4-2 “Defects Closed in this Release” describe the defects closed in the previous releases and the current release of BIND 9.2, respectively.

Table 4-1 Defects Closed in the Previous Releases

Defect	Description
JAGad95074	Porting of BIND9.2.0 on HPUX 11.11.
JAGae38578	Problem with nslookup in BIND.
JAGae37800	Openssl not working properly
JAGae33084	A buffer-length based computational error exits in the nslookup.
JAGae33027	`named` is not handling ENOSR error when writing to the internal control pipe.
JAGae32214	Potential memory leak in `named`.
JAGae31999	`named` is not logging the unexpected error.
JAGae31407	`named` fails to exit after `rndc` is invoked with incorrect zone.
JAGae30189	A name server configured as a cache only server fails to process the queries under certain circumstances.
JAGae16049	`named(1M)` does not close socket with `blackhole` configuration.
JAGae16048	named does not close socket with `controls` configuration.
JAGae08966	`accept()` fails with an error message `No buffer space available`.
JAGae32958	The `hosts_to_named` command takes considerable amount of time to process the host table.
JAGae95793	The `rndc dumpdb` command does not dump the address database cache.
JAGae93621	Certain openssl certificates do not work properly.
JAGae72605	In an IPv6 system, if the `listen-on-v6 ( none };` option is specified in the named.conf file named does not listen on an IPv4 interface.
JAGae51696	Adding the `edns` option in the `options` statement in `named.conf` file for BIND9.
JAGae69740	`named` does not handle large domain names properly.
JAGae69742	`named` handles certain valid octal bit labels incorrectly.
JAGae69743	Openssl gives error while parsing tokens.
JAGae70323	`named` hangs during certain circumstances.

Table 4-2 Defects Closed in this Release

Defect Description

JAGaf06536

In multithreaded environment, named aborts with an assertion failure REQUIRE. The following error message is logged in the syslog file:

lib/dns/resolver.c:5065: REQUIRE((((fetch) != 0L) &&(((constisc__magic_t * )(fetch))->magic == (((’F’) << 24 | (’t’) << 16 | (’c’) << 8 | (’h’)))))) failed
Nov 04 00:30:00.459 general: critical: exiting (due to assertion failure)

JAGae97983

In multithreaded environment, named aborts with an assertion failure. The error reported in the syslog file is as follows:

critical: lib/dns/name.c:3200: REQUIRE((((name) != 0L) && (((const isc__magic_t *)(name))->magic == (((’D’) << 24 | (’N’) << 16 | (’S’) << 8 | (’n’)))))) failed
Sep 11 15:54:09.269 general: critical: exiting (due to assertion failure)

JAGaf11223

Data in the files created by hosts_to_named is inconsistent between the named.conf and the secondary files.

JAGaf09745

named aborts with assertion failure REQUIRE in task.c. The following error message is logged in the syslog file:

named[9203]: lib/isc/task.c:395: REQUIRE((((task) != 0L)  &&(((const isc__magic_t *)(task))->magic == (((’T’) << 24 | (’A’) << 16 | (’S’) << 8 | (’K’)))))) failed

JAGaf35663

The dnssec-keygen utility does not use the /dev/random file, by default, as a source of entropy.

JAGaf40799

The rndc stop command does not flush data into the db files.

JAGaf45348

named aborts with assertion failure INSIST in name.c.

Table 4-3 “Backported Defects” lists the defects fixed in BIND 9.2.0 that are ported back from the new versions of BIND.

Table 4-3 Backported Defects

New BIND Version	Defect Number
BIND 9.2.4	JAGaf06536 JAGaf09745
BIND 9.2.3	JAGae70323 JAGae97983
BIND 9.2.2	JAGae08966JAGae69740 JAGaf40799
BIND 9.2.1	JAGaf45348 JAGae16048 JAGae33027 JAGae32214 JAGae31999 JAGae31407 JAGae69742 JAGae30189 JAGae16049

Defects Closed in this Release

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