[Pkg-dns-devel] Bug#598434: bind9: Improve detection and handling of recursive 'include' statements in configuration files

[Bernhard Schmidt]

Control: tags -1 upstream

On Tue, Sep 28, 2010 at 11:15:28PM +0200, Javier Fernández-Sanguino Peña wrote:

> Currently, bind9 does not try to take any precaution when handling 'include'
> statements in the config files. It will happily accept even an include
> statement in a file pointing to itself which is, obviously, something that
> leads nowhere. For example, see attached named.conf.local, which bind9 tries
> to chew even if it doesn't make sense.

Thanks for submitting this patch.

Upstream has recently introduced a public Gitlab instance at
https://gitlab.isc.org where patches / feature-requests can be
submitted. We don't want to add more Debian patches, but if this issue
is still relevant please submit it upstream for inclusion.

Bernhard