Date: Wed, 31 Jan 2001 23:30:28 -0800 From: "Crist J. Clark" <cjclark@reflexnet.net> To: Matt Dillon <dillon@earth.backplane.com> Cc: Alfred Perlstein <bright@wintelcom.net>, Brian Behlendorf <brian@collab.net>, Roman Shterenzon <roman@xpert.com>, freebsd-security@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: FreeBSD Security Advisory: FreeBSD-SA-01:18.bind Message-ID: <20010131233028.S91447@rfx-216-196-73-168.users.reflex> In-Reply-To: <200101312327.f0VNRPv20077@earth.backplane.com>; from dillon@earth.backplane.com on Wed, Jan 31, 2001 at 03:27:25PM -0800 References: <20010131140447.E26076@fw.wintelcom.net> <Pine.BSF.4.31.0101311447150.729-100000@localhost> <20010131145423.H26076@fw.wintelcom.net> <200101312305.f0VN5vJ19469@earth.backplane.com> <20010131151531.I26076@fw.wintelcom.net> <200101312327.f0VNRPv20077@earth.backplane.com>
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On Wed, Jan 31, 2001 at 03:27:25PM -0800, Matt Dillon wrote: > :> I think we can easily make it the default. > : > :If it breaks HUP, then not really. :) > : > :I'm not sure how bind handles restarts, but even if it exec(2)s over > :itself it can track the fd open for its socket and shouldn't have to > :rebind it. > > You gotta work with what you have. Bind outsmarts itself in a lot > of places, especially the stupid interface scanning/binding code. The > last thing I want it to do is hold *any* state from the previous > incarnation across a restart. Frankly, restarting is not a big deal > even if you have hundreds or thousands of domains. I always restarted > named at BEST rather then HUP it, becausing HUPing is simply too > dangerous when you make random modifications to dozens of primary > zone files out of thousands. You also loose the cache. Some people may not like that. -- Crist J. Clark cjclark@alum.mit.edu To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-security" in the body of the message
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