Fedora 12 Update: bind-9.6.2-2.P1.fc12

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Fedora Update Notification
FEDORA-2010-5020
2010-03-23 01:44:51
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Name        : bind
Product     : Fedora 12
Version     : 9.6.2
Release     : 2.P1.fc12
URL         : http://www.isc.org/products/BIND/
Summary     : The Berkeley Internet Name Domain (BIND) DNS (Domain Name System) server
Description :
BIND (Berkeley Internet Name Domain) is an implementation of the DNS
(Domain Name System) protocols. BIND includes a DNS server (named),
which resolves host names to IP addresses; a resolver library
(routines for applications to use when interfacing with DNS); and
tools for verifying that the DNS server is operating properly.

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Update Information:

Update to 9.6.2-P1 upstream release. This release fixes a following issue:    *
named could repeatedly ask for unknown DNSSEC keys and flood logs with "no valid
KEY resolving ..." messages. This issue can also cause DDoS of authoritative
servers of signed domains which were repeatedly flooded by hundreds of questions
for unknown keys.
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ChangeLog:

* Fri Mar 19 2010 Adam Tkac <atkac redhat com> 32:9.6.2-2.P1
- update to 9.6.2-P1 upstream release (#556366)
* Fri Mar 12 2010 Adam Tkac <atkac redhat com> 32:9.6.2-1
- update to 9.6.2
- patches merged
  - bind-96-db_unregister.patch
  - bind96-rh507469.patch
* Wed Jan 27 2010 Adam Tkac <atkac redhat com> 32:9.6.1-16.P3
- revert the "DEBUG" feature (#510283), it causes too many problems (#545128)
* Tue Jan 19 2010 Adam Tkac <atkac redhat com> 32:9.6.1-15.P3
- update to 9.6.1-P3 (CVE-2010-0097)
* Wed Jan 13 2010 Adam Tkac <atkac redhat com> 32:9.6.1-14.P2
- fix occasional crash in keytable.c (#554316)
* Wed Nov 25 2009 Adam Tkac <atkac redhat com> 32:9.6.1-13.P2
- update to 9.6.1-P2 (CVE-2009-4022)
* Thu Oct  8 2009 Adam Tkac <atkac redhat com> 32:9.6.1-12.P1
- don't package named-bootconf utility, it is very outdated and unneeded
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References:

  [ 1 ] Bug #556366 - bind repeatedly requests DNSKEY records after getting responses with unknown keys
        https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=556366
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This update can be installed with the "yum" update program.  Use 
su -c 'yum update bind' at the command line.
For more information, refer to "Managing Software with yum",
available at http://docs.fedoraproject.org/yum/.

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