Date: Fri, 02 Feb 2007 13:27:25 -0500 From: Chuck Swiger <cswiger@mac.com> To: Doug Barton <dougb@FreeBSD.org> Cc: freebsd-security@freebsd.org Subject: Re: What about BIND 9.3.4 in FreeBSD in base system ? Message-ID: <45C3828D.8010900@mac.com> In-Reply-To: <45C2E870.5000000@FreeBSD.org> References: <001601c74428$ff9d54b0$ab76ed54@odipw> <45BEE27D.1050804@FreeBSD.org> <45BFA1B3.9040000@rxsec.com> <45C23DAA.9040108@FreeBSD.org> <45C24D57.3000704@mac.com> <45C25696.10806@FreeBSD.org> <45C26ACC.9020702@mac.com> <45C2E870.5000000@FreeBSD.org>
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Doug Barton wrote: > Chuck Swiger wrote: >> Doug Barton wrote: [ ... ] > Right. As I understood it, you were arguing in favor of MFC'ing a fix to > RELENG_5 because you have machines from that branch in a production > setting. If I misunderstood your point, I apologize. I would like CVE-2007-0493 fixed in RELENG_5 and RELENG_5_5, specifically, yes please. More generally, I would like BIND to deal with hundreds (or-- preferably but not required-- thousands) of outstanding recursive queries without dumping core or becoming non-responsive. Have you attempted to reproduce the issue via the adns port or anything else which generates lots of queries? >> When the number of machines one deals with in a given environment >> changes from single-digit, to dozens, to hundreds, to tens of >> thousands, keeping machines updated to a bug-free, stable environment >> is more important than chasing features off the latest branch. > > Yes, I understand those issues quite well. I used to manage hundreds of > name servers for a company that had many 10s of thousands of machines. > And I think that you are basically making my point, which is that users > in a serious production environment are probably not using the BIND that > comes with FreeBSD in an off the shelf configuration. It would be safe to say that almost all people using BIND are not using a completely off-the-shelf configuration, unless you count the few only running as "caching-only". -- -Chuck
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