Re: New BIND 4 & 8 Vulnerabilities

[Craig Sanders <cas@taz.net.au>]

On Wed, Nov 13, 2002 at 12:46:14PM +1100, Craig Sanders wrote:
> the main thing i'm worried about is that bind9 had enormous memory leaks when
> i tried 9.0 several months ago.  i hope they're fixed now.

FYI, doesn't look like the memory leaks have been fixed:

# ps v -Cnamed
  PID TTY  STAT   TIME  MAJFL   TRS   DRS  RSS %MEM COMMAND
 6799 ?    S      0:00    111   232 336175 200968 39.1 /usr/sbin/named -u bind
 6801 ?    S      0:00      0   232 336175 200968 39.1 /usr/sbin/named -u bind
 6802 ?    S    466:10   2757   232 336175 200968 39.1 /usr/sbin/named -u bind
 6803 ?    S      0:04      1   232 336175 200968 39.1 /usr/sbin/named -u bind
 6804 ?    R     49:56      1   232 336175 200968 39.1 /usr/sbin/named -u bind


this is on a machine where bind 8 used to use about 150MB.  bind 9 has been
running for only 4 days.


i'm going to revert back to bind 8 now that the patched 8.3.3-3 has been
uploaded to unstable.



craig

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