Ack. And the development team currently doesn’t have resources
to tackle the underlying issue that was causing the assertion failure,
so this will only get fixed if we can get a reliable reproducer to the
issue (or a patch :)).

Ondrej (with his ISC hat, not Debian Developer hat)
--
Ondřej Surý (He/Him)
ond...@sury.org

> On 21. 1. 2021, at 14:46, Bernhard Schmidt <be...@debian.org> wrote:
> 
> Control: forwarded -1 https://gitlab.isc.org/isc-projects/bind9/-/issues/2091
> 
> On 30/11/20 11:07 AM, Francesco Potortì wrote:
> 
> Hi,
> 
>> From time to time I get these in the logs:
>> 
>> Nov 29 13:56:15 tucano named[3629893]: resolver.c:5137: unexpected error:
>> Nov 29 13:56:15 tucano named[3629893]: '_.edu.cn/A' is not subdomain of 
>> 'whu.edu.cn'
> 
> As far as I understand
> https://gitlab.isc.org/isc-projects/bind9/-/issues/2091 this is part of
> the debugging code for an assertion error with earlier 9.16.x versions.
> According to upstream this is harmless and it has been mentioned as such
> in the release notes of 9.16.11
> 
> ---
> The report of intermittent BIND assertion failures triggered in
> lib/dns/resolver.c:dns_name_issubdomain() has now been closed without
> further action. Our initial response to this was to add diagnostic
> logging instead of terminating named, anticipating that we would receive
> further useful troubleshooting input. This workaround first appeared in
> BIND releases 9.17.5 and 9.16.7. However, since those releases were
> published, there have been no new reports of assertion failures matching
> this issue, but also no further diagnostic input, so we have closed the
> issue. [GL #2091]
> ---
> 
> Please check whether you still see this in 9.16.11 (just uploaded).
> 
> Bernhard
> 

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