# \[Bro-Commits\] \[git/bro\] fastpath: Fix memory leak in DNS TXT lookups. (62de567)

**URL:** <https://community.zeek.org/t/bro-commits-git-bro-fastpath-fix-memory-leak-in-dns-txt-lookups-62de567/2805>\
**Category:** Development\
**Tags:** development\
**Created:** [September 4, 2013, 10:05pm UTC](https://community.zeek.org/t/bro-commits-git-bro-fastpath-fix-memory-leak-in-dns-txt-lookups-62de567/2805 "2013-09-04T22:05:31Z")\
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**Author:** ![Siwek\_Jon](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/90db22/32.png) [@Siwek\_Jon](https://community.zeek.org/u/Siwek_Jon)\
**Post date:** [September 4, 2013, 10:05pm UTC](https://community.zeek.org/t/bro-commits-git-bro-fastpath-fix-memory-leak-in-dns-txt-lookups-62de567/2805/1 "2013-09-04T22:05:31Z")

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This might be a significant leak since local.bro has the MHR and notary scripts loaded by default now and those use TXT lookups. Though, the leak is when there's a request for something that's already cached locally, that might happen often enough (same file/cert seen multiple times).

- Jon

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**Author:** ![Seth\_Hall3](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/d6d6ee/32.png) [@Seth\_Hall3](https://community.zeek.org/u/Seth_Hall3)\
**Post date:** [September 5, 2013, 4:15pm UTC](https://community.zeek.org/t/bro-commits-git-bro-fastpath-fix-memory-leak-in-dns-txt-lookups-62de567/2805/2 "2013-09-05T16:15:42Z")

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Nice find. A large site that was having trouble on their workers is running that now. We should find out pretty soon.

&nbsp;&nbsp;.Seth

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**Author:** ![system](https://canada1.discourse-cdn.com/flex011/uploads/zeek/original/1X/f09d732bc2cc7c7cc7e35db67cf4e1d5233ce7a7.png) [@system](https://community.zeek.org/u/system)\
**Post date:** [May 6, 2022, 3:41pm UTC](https://community.zeek.org/t/bro-commits-git-bro-fastpath-fix-memory-leak-in-dns-txt-lookups-62de567/2805/3 "2022-05-06T15:41:12Z")

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