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From: lutz@iks-jena.de (Lutz Donnerhacke)
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Subject: Re: BIND is Crying Out for Ada95
Date: 9 Feb 2001 11:47:06 GMT
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* Lutz Donnerhacke wrote:
>The main problem with DNS is the protocol. And the main problem with UNIX
>daemons is the braindead API of syscalls and libraries.

To stress this further I quote something from BUGTRAQ:
  This is apparently caused by a kernel bug: A very short-lived incoming TCP
  connection can cause accept() to return successfully but fail to fill in
  the peer address structure pointed to by the second argument.

Would you catch a exception caused by incorrect data returned by the system?
BIND 9.1.0 died by a assert() call checking these return values (AFAIUTS).