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MyDNS causing reboot?



 I have a couple servers in colo, and a month ago I installed MyDNS with a 
PostgreSQL backend to manage the name servers. I was intending to use a 
web based DNS configuration tool to make my life easier. 

Then, two weeks ago, after running for years without a problem, I'm 
getting a rash of spontaneous reboots. The only thing that has really 
changed is the addition of MyDNS. No sign in /var/log/messages or or 
security, they look normal and have information before and after the 
reboot. 

The servers have IP tables running as a firewall and are pretty secure. 
There are only a few standard ports open, ssh, http, https, dns, pop3, and 
imap. 

Looking around I noticed a number of security bulletins on buffer 
overflows in MyDNS. Has anyone seen this with 1.10? Is it just not worth 
using? I have restored named, and killed mydns to see if the reboots stop. 

Does anyone know of a newer version? 1.10 is from 2006. 

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