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> I checked www.isc.org's
> website and found an upgrade from T5B to T6B saying quote "infamous
> "munnari" bug suite fixed". Could this be the bug that was exploited in my
> case?

Probably not. The infamous "munnari" bug suite refers to a problem which
was discussed on bind-workers@isc.org in a thread "8.2.3 - maybe a problem"
started by Robert Elz <kre@munnari.OZ.AU> on July 4, 2000. The problem was
basically that named on some extremely busy systems managed to effectively
block SIGCHLD, and therefore didn't clean up all of its children - and thus
sooner or later ran out of virtual memory/swap space.

Steinar Haug, Nethelp consulting, sthaug@nethelp.no


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