>Number:         29412
>Category:       pkg
>Synopsis:       www/squid should be updated to handle odd DNS responses
>Confidential:   no
>Severity:       critical
>Priority:       high
>Responsible:    pkg-manager
>State:          open
>Class:          change-request
>Submitter-Id:   net
>Arrival-Date:   Thu Feb 17 10:52:00 +0000 2005
>Originator:     Mike M. Volokhov
>Release:        Any NetBSD, squid-2.5.8 package
>Organization:
	ISPK
>Environment:
No matter
>Description:

	Greetings!

	The www/squid package shoulbe be updated to include latest patches
	available at www.squid-cache.org.

	After recent Squid updates (at least since 2.5.7nb8 and up to 2.5.8)
	the Squid proxy may abort with "xstrndup: Asserton 'n' failed" or
	other errors when receiving certain odd DNS responses. This may also
	cause to Squid shutdown by the frequent child failures. For details
	please see the following URL:

	http://www.squid-cache.org/Versions/v2/2.5/bugs/#squid-2.5.STABLE8-dns_assert

>How-To-Repeat:

	Set "log_fqdn on" inside squid.conf and try to access, for example,
	www.im2.com site.

>Fix:

	Pullup this and other latest patches:

	http://www.squid-cache.org/Versions/v2/2.5/bugs/squid-2.5.STABLE8-dns_assert.patch

	--
	TIA,
	Mishka.