I've also seen this issue occur across 6 servers, only running bind9 - and also started occurring in the same week which John described (8th Nov).
I will look into using the ppa too and see if this resolves the issue and report back.
$lsb_release -rd Description: Ubuntu 20.04.3 LTS Release: 20.04
$ apt-cache policy bind9 bind9: Installed: 1:9.16.1-0ubuntu2.11 Candidate: 1:9.16.1-0ubuntu2.11
syslog output
Nov 28 21:23:03 userdns02 kernel: [1795011.607189] isc-worker0001[137345]: segfault at 118 ip 00007f38f2d7a0c7 sp 00007f38ee935a50 error 4 in libisc.so.1601.0.0[7f38f2d56000+46000] Nov 28 21:23:03 userdns02 kernel: [1795011.607207] Code: 02 00 b9 df 01 00 00 be 38 00 00 00 48 8b 78 10 e8 6e 6a ff ff 66 0f ef c0 49 89 c4 48 8b 45 10 4c 89 e6 48 8b 80 f0 00 00 00 <48> 8b 80 18 01 00 00 41 0f 11 04 24 41 0f 11 44 24 20 41 0f 11 44
I've also seen this issue occur across 6 servers, only running bind9 - and also started occurring in the same week which John described (8th Nov).
I will look into using the ppa too and see if this resolves the issue and report back.
$lsb_release -rd
Description: Ubuntu 20.04.3 LTS
Release: 20.04
$ apt-cache policy bind9 1-0ubuntu2. 11 1-0ubuntu2. 11
bind9:
Installed: 1:9.16.
Candidate: 1:9.16.
syslog output
Nov 28 21:23:03 userdns02 kernel: [1795011.607189] isc-worker0001[ 137345] : segfault at 118 ip 00007f38f2d7a0c7 sp 00007f38ee935a50 error 4 in libisc. so.1601. 0.0[7f38f2d5600 0+46000]
Nov 28 21:23:03 userdns02 kernel: [1795011.607207] Code: 02 00 b9 df 01 00 00 be 38 00 00 00 48 8b 78 10 e8 6e 6a ff ff 66 0f ef c0 49 89 c4 48 8b 45 10 4c 89 e6 48 8b 80 f0 00 00 00 <48> 8b 80 18 01 00 00 41 0f 11 04 24 41 0f 11 44 24 20 41 0f 11 44