Package: bind9 Version: 1:9.9.5.dfsg-4 Severity: important Tags: patch Currently, the following scripts are installed by the bind9 package:
/etc/ppp/ip-up.d/bind9 /etc/ppp/ip-down.d/bind9 /etc/network/if-up.d/bind9 /etc/network/if-down.d/bind9 These scripts contain the following call: rndc reconfig >/dev/null 2>&1 || true I had an issue on my system that made the named daemon freeze in such a way that any rndc command would hang forever. Since rndc is called as part of network interface up/down scripts, it made these scripts hang as well. As a result, my machine lost its network connection. Network interface up/down scripts should not have a critical dependency on some non-critical part of the system (bind9) behaving correctly. Otherwise it makes the network subsystem exceedingly brittle. To fix the issue, I suggest replacing the line above with the following so that the network subsystem will never wait on rndc: rndc reconfig >/dev/null 2>&1 & -- System Information: Debian Release: jessie/sid APT prefers unstable APT policy: (500, 'unstable'), (1, 'experimental') Architecture: amd64 (x86_64) Foreign Architectures: i386 Kernel: Linux 3.14-1-amd64 (SMP w/8 CPU cores) Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8) Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash Versions of packages bind9 depends on: ii adduser 3.113+nmu3 ii bind9utils 1:9.9.5.dfsg-4 ii debconf [debconf-2.0] 1.5.53 ii init-system-helpers 1.19 ii libbind9-90 1:9.9.5.dfsg-4 ii libc6 2.19-6 ii libcap2 1:2.22-1.2 ii libcomerr2 1.42.11-1 ii libdns100 1:9.9.5.dfsg-4 ii libgssapi-krb5-2 1.12.1+dfsg-3 ii libisc95 1:9.9.5.dfsg-4 ii libisccc90 1:9.9.5.dfsg-4 ii libisccfg90 1:9.9.5.dfsg-4 ii libk5crypto3 1.12.1+dfsg-3 ii libkrb5-3 1.12.1+dfsg-3 ii liblwres90 1:9.9.5.dfsg-4 ii libssl1.0.0 1.0.1h-3 ii libxml2 2.9.1+dfsg1-4 ii lsb-base 4.1+Debian13 ii net-tools 1.60-26 ii netbase 5.2 bind9 recommends no packages. Versions of packages bind9 suggests: pn bind9-doc <none> ii knot-dnsutils [dnsutils] 1.5.0-1 ii resolvconf 1.75 pn ufw <none> -- Configuration Files: /etc/bind/named.conf.local changed [not included] /etc/bind/named.conf.options changed [not included] -- debconf information excluded -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org