Re: Assertion `off <= sz' failed?

On Thu, Nov 11, 1999, Chen Shiyuan wrote:
> Hello!
>
> I am a new user to Squid and is currently running Squid-2.3DEVEL2 on my RedHat
> Linux 6.1 system. I compiled the source file with CFLAGS="-O6 -mpentiumpro
> -fno-strength" and all is working just fine except that once in a while, Squid
> will die all of a sudden by itself.
>
> No error messages are noted in the /var/log/squid/cache.log file and it only
> indicated that Squid is doing a full restart. But in /var/log/squid/access.log,
> the following line appears at the momemt of crash :-
>
> (squid): rfc1035.c:427: rfc1035AnswersUnpack: Assertion `off <= sz' failed.
>
> Has anyone encountered this problem before or have any idea how to solve this
> problem?

yes, there is a patch that works on the squid web site.

http://squid.nlanr.net/Versions/v2/2.3/bugs/

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