Re: DNS server crashed

Jason Lewis wrote:
>
> Anyone aware of exploits for the recent BIND security holes? I had a name
> server crash today. Nothing in the logs that point to anything, it was just
> down. It is the only box I can't upgrade BIND on. It has a funky OS
> install and I need to rebuild it from scratch. I am waiting for new boxes,
> so it is low priority.
>
> I suspect someone was attempting to hack it, but I can't find any evidence.
> It was just hung.
>
> Thoughts?
>
> jas
> http://www.rivalpath.com

Several people on the BUGTRAQ mailinglist has reported that Bind 9.1 is
crashing if someone do a

"nmap -O -sT proven"

on the server. Nothing official from ISC.org or CERT has been announced
since the last bug report for Bind 8.2.2-P7 was filed.

Best regards
 Michael Boman

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