Re: [squid-users] Re: Abnormal End (Squid 2.5S8)

On Wed, 16 Feb 2005, Henrik Nordstrom wrote:

> On Wed, 16 Feb 2005, M A Young wrote:
>
> > I suggest you make sure you have applied the post 2.5S8 major patch for
> > odd DNS responses. This supposedly affects earlier versions of squid as
> > well, but it seems to cause us many more crashes when we moved from 2.5S7
> > to 2.5S8RC3 which have stopped now we have applied this patch.
>
> There was also many other segfault errors corrected between RC3 and
> STABLE8 so it's hard to tell which of the bugs was causing your problems
> without having a backtrace of the segfault, but yes, the DNS patch is good
> to have.

I did have backtraces of the problem, and the crashes matched the
symptoms of the DNS crash, so I am pretty sure this was actually the
problem, though of course the other segfaults may have made it more likely
to occur.

        Michael Young
Received on Wed Feb 16 2005 - 03:28:09 MST