Date: Tue, 15 May 2001 17:13:45 +1000 (EST) From: Stephen Cimarelli <stephen@clari.net.au> To: "Dan Mahoney, System Admin" <danm@prime.gushi.org> Cc: questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: onitoring named Message-ID: <XFMail.010515171345.stephen@clari.net.au> In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.4.21.0105150137090.95126-100000@prime.gushi.org>
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have you looked at this http://www.isc.org/ml-archives/bind-users/2001/02/msg00842.html On 15-May-01 Dan Mahoney, System Admin wrote: > Please leave me out of these threads from here on in, as while watching > your evangelical theological debate is fascinating, and wonderful for > freebsd-philosophy@freebsd.org or letmelectureandbuymybook@freebsd.org, it > really does little to answer the simple question "has anyone noticed any > odd crashes under bind-8.2.3-REL without corefiles and often without > syslog messages, and what has anyone done to correct them?" > > Call me a greenhorn if you will, I'm used to getting reasonable answers > from this list, so if I occasionally turn to it as a first resort because > (A) Dejanews is jsut painful lately and (B) Many people on this list have > had the "common" problems (and indeed, since I'm experiencing it on > multiple servers on different networks, it's common, at least to me). > > Thanks for all the Fish > (In Memory of Douglas Adams) > > -Dan Mahoney > > On Mon, 14 May 2001, Kris Kennaway wrote: > > > >> On Mon, May 14, 2001 at 10:23:28PM -0700, Ted Mittelstaedt wrote: >> >> > >Both: >95% of the reported problems with named crashes on FreeBSD >> > >lists in the past 4 months have been penetration attempts, or at least >> > >occurred to people running vulnerable versions of named with symptoms >> > >perfectly consistent to being attacked. Therefore this is the best >> > >initial diagnosis for people reporting problems with their named, >> > >until they go further and rule it out by indicating that they're >> > >already running 8.2.3-REL or a version of 9.x. At that point more >> > >detailed analysis is obviously required (which perhaps might be better >> > >carried out on the bind support mailing lists). >> > >> > The only problem with this statistic (assuming the 95% is >> > accurate) is that for it to be a valid indicator, this would >> > require that all the people having problems with bind >> > did, in fact, query the FreeBSD lists first, instead of >> > posting in the newsgroups or mailing lists. >> >> Please note that I specifically did not say "95% of all people with >> BIND problems", I qualified the statistic by restricting it to the >> places I observed the data from, namely the FreeBSD lists. I would >> not, for example, extend this expectation to people reporting BIND >> problems to the BIND support list, because it's clearly a different >> domain. It is only a valid indicator for a) FreeBSD support lists and >> b) at the present time, until the trend substantially changes (maybe >> in 6 months or so). >> >> Kris >> > > -- > > "Hitler, Satan, those Hanson kids, anything. Just not the curious > anteater." > > -Peter Scolari, as Wayne Szalinki in "Honey, I Shrunk The Kids--The > Series" > > > --------Dan Mahoney-------- > Techie, Sysadmin, WebGeek > Gushi on efnet/undernet IRC > ICQ: 13735144 AIM: LarpGM > Web: http://prime.gushi.org > finger danm@prime.gushi.org > for pgp public key and tel# > --------------------------- > > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message ---------------------------------- E-Mail: Stephen Cimarelli <stephen@clari.net.au> Date: 15-May-01 Time: 17:12:51 ClariNet Internet Solutions +61 3 9486 0811 www.clari.net.au ---------------------------------- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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