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From: smb@ulysses.att.com (Steven Bellovin)
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Subject: truncated zone transfers
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Date: 24 May 91 19:58:21 GMT
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We just ran into an ``amusing'' problem with named on a Sun (4.1.1).
It was low on space in the / partition; when named-xfer ran to
do a zone transfer, space ran out entirely.  The result was that the
file was truncated, and apparently, this went unnoticed by named-xfer.
Thus, when named itself read in the zone file, it was missing a lot
of entries.  Naturally, this caused major disarray.

I've confirmed in the 4.1 source that no call to ferror() is made.
Berkeley has fixed that in 4.8.3; is a fix available from Sun?