Date: Sun, 20 Jul 2008 23:54:59 +0530 From: Subhro <subhro.kar@gmail.com> To: "Clifton Royston" <cliftonr@lava.net> Cc: Brett Glass <brett@lariat.net>, stable@freebsd.org Subject: Re: FreeBSD 7.1 and BIND exploit Message-ID: <b2807d040807201124o55e4ff1di3f6d06d99d4b4a6a@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <20080720181554.GA5405@lava.net> References: <200807200230.UAA17164@lariat.net> <20080720181554.GA5405@lava.net>
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Cilton, Off topic, but could you please tell me (us) the advantages(and disadvantages) of djbdns over bind? Thanks Subhro On Sun, Jul 20, 2008 at 11:45 PM, Clifton Royston <cliftonr@lava.net> wrote: > On Sat, Jul 19, 2008 at 08:30:57PM -0600, Brett Glass wrote: >> Everyone: >> >> Will FreeBSD 7.1 be released in time to use it as an upgrade to >> close the BIND cache poisoning hole? We'd like to upgrade affected >> servers to the latest FreeBSD at the same time that we upgrade >> BIND if possible. > > Given that 7.1 and 6.4 are still listed as "August" in the RE page, > and things often slip a bit as the date approaches, I'd say you'd be > well-advised not to wait. Assuming you're running 7.0 or 6.3, upgrade > to the latest _RELENG patch which is much less work than a full version > upgrade. > > My opinion only. I'm not a developer, and I'm not running any > recursive resolvers on BIND these days; my limited set of machines are > running djbdns instead, so I have more flexibility. > > -- Clifton > > -- > Clifton Royston -- cliftonr@iandicomputing.com / cliftonr@lava.net > President - I and I Computing * http://www.iandicomputing.com/ > Custom programming, network design, systems and network consulting services > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-stable@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-stable > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-stable-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" > -- Subhro Kar Software Engineer Dynamic Digital Technologies Pvt. Ltd. EPY-3, Sector: V Salt Lake City 700091 India
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