HP Tru64 UNIX and TruCluster Server Version 5.1B-5 Patch Summary and Release Notes (March 2009)

• Adds support to the ifconfig application for the IPv6 command line argument
ip6reachabletime.
• Fixes a condition that causes an ftpd file transfer failure when a file exceeds 2 GB.
• Fixes an ftp client accounting error that occurs when transferring files larger than
4 GB.
• Fixes library dependencies to allow ifconfig to be run in single user mode.
• Corrects a problem that occurs when using MD5 authentication with Version 2
RIP.
• Corrects a condition that causes a hang of the IPv6 routing daemon.
• Resolves a problem with gated where adding a route may not succeed under
certain circumstances.
• Corrects a potential security vulnerability where, under certain circumstances,
system integrity may be compromised. This may occur when the gated daemon
or gated control utility (gdc) incorrectly access temporary files.
• Corrects a potential security vulnerability where, under certain circumstances,
system integrity may be compromised. This may be in the form of mrouted daemon
incorrectly creating and accessing temporary files.
• Adds a required call to yp_unbind() after getnameinfo() in order to close all ports
when using telnet on some machines.
• Provides comment handling capability in the route initialization script for parsing
/etc/routes file.
• Fixes an incorrect diagnostic message in the traceroute command.
• Modifies ifconfig to include an RCSid for patch tracking purposes.
• Updates ICMP code to add redirect timeout support and nonmodifiable route
table entries.
• Fixes setld failures with "Kerberos credentials not found" messages.
• Changes the use of the configuration file /etc/svc.conf to /etc/nsswitch.conf to allow
netgroup data to be provided from LDAP, rather than only from NIS.
• Sets a software limit to prevent serious performance problems that can occur when
TCP connections that have an rate-limit enforced by a downstream network device
overrun the device.
• Eliminates the message "usage: hostid [hexnum or internet address]" from the
/usr/sbin/niscluster script while using the -d option.
• Resolves a problem that occurs when forking inetd children processes on
NUMA-based AlphaServer platforms.
• Addresses a problem with a missing file that is required for the pmgrd daemon's
iorate metrics collection feature to work.
• Modifies NIS slaves running in a cluster to use CAA to help assign a crontab entry
to update NIS maps.
• Fixes the ftpd SIZE subcommand to conform to RFC 959.
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