[Pdns-announce] PowerDNS Recursor 3.0.1 with important fixes released

[bert hubert]

Released 25th of April 2006, download from:

 http://downloads.powerdns.com/releases/pdns-recursor-3.0.1.tar.bz2

 http://downloads.powerdns.com/releases/rpm/pdns-recursor-3.0.1-1.i386.rpm
 http://downloads.powerdns.com/releases/deb/pdns-recursor_3.0.1-1_i386.deb

 http://downloads.powerdns.com/releases/rpm/pdns-recursor-3.0.1-1.x86_64.rpm
 http://downloads.powerdns.com/releases/deb/pdns-recursor_3.0.1-1_amd64.deb

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HTML version of these notes, with clickable links is available on:

       http://doc.powerdns.com/changelog.html#CHANGELOG-RECURSOR-3-0-1

This release consists of nothing but tiny fixes to 3.0, including one with
security implications. An upgrade is highly recommended.

  * Certain malformed packets could crash the recursor. As far as we can
    determine these packets could only lead to a crash, but as always,
    there are no guarantees. A quick upgrade is highly recommended
    (commits 760, 761). Reported by David Gavarret.

  * Compilation used both cc and gcc, leading to the possibility of
    compiling with different compiler versions (commit 766).

  * rec_control would leave files named lsockXXXXXX around in the
    configured socket-dir. Operators may wish to remove these files from
    their socket-dir (often /var/run), quite a few might have accumulated
    already (commit 767).

  * Recursor would not distinguish between NXDOMAIN and NXRRSET (commit
    756). Reported and debugged by Jorn Ekkelenkamp.

  * Some error messages and trace logging statements were improved
    (commits 756, 758, 759).

  * stderr was closed during daemonizing, but not dupped to /dev/null,
    leading to slight chance of odd behaviour on reporting errors (commit
    757)

Operating system specific fixes:

  * The stock Debian sarge Linux kernel, 2.6.8, claims to support epoll
    but fails at runtime. The epoll self-testing code has been improved,
    and PowerDNS will fall back to a select based multiplexer if needed
    (commit 758) Reported by Michiel van Es.

  * Solaris 8 compilation and runtime issues were addressed. See the
    README for details (commit 765). Reported by Juergen Georgi and
    Kenneth Marshall.

  * Solaris 10 x86_64 compilation issues were addressed (commit 755).
    Reported and debugged by Eric Sproul.

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