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RHN Bind Update Brings Down RHEL Named

Posted by kdawson on from the remind-me-of-your-name-again dept.

alexs writes "Red Hat's response to update bind through RHN, patching the DNS hole, made a fatal error which will revert all name servers to caching only servers. This meant that anyone running their own DNS service promptly lost all of their DNS records for which they were acting as primary or secondary name servers. Expect quite a few services provided by servers running RHEL to, errr, die until their system administrators can restore their named.conf. Instead of installing etc/named.conf to etc/named.rpmnew, Red Hat moved the current etc/named.conf to etc/named.conf.rpmsave and replaced etc/named.conf with the default caching only configuration. The fix is easy enough, but this is a schoolboy error which I am surprised Red Hat made. Unfortunately we were hit and our servers went down overnight while RHN dropped its bomb and I am frankly surprised there has not been more of an uproar about this."

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  1. Um... by wellingtonsteve · · Score: 4, Funny

    "I am frankly surprised there has not been more of an uproar about this"

    That's because the entire Internets are now broken!

  2. Re:New update? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 3, Funny

    Yes, as an official red hat representative, I can say that we can. All you need to do at this time is respond posting your server addresses and login credentials. We will fix it from there.

  3. Re:New update? by I+cant+believe+its+n · · Score: 5, Funny

    Yes, as an official red hat representative, I can say that we can. All you need to do at this time is respond posting your server addresses and login credentials. We will fix it from there.

    Ok, the login name is root and I use the default password: password for all our production machines.
    Oh, I almost forgot. Our IP is 207.46.19.254

    Please let our CEO know that I was the one who gave you this information.

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  4. Re:What are those admins supposed to do .. by Just+Some+Guy · · Score: 2, Funny

    Summary: keep backups. :-)

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    Dewey, what part of this looks like authorities should be involved?
  5. This is why I don't run Windows... by Blimey85 · · Score: 2, Funny

    Crap like this is why I lost faith in Microsoft and quit running Windows years ago. Thankfully my RHEL box isn't affected by this sort of... oh... wait... really? Shit.

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