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[linux-security] Re: About DNS again

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Bill Fenner)
Sun Nov 24 09:39:34 1996

From: Bill Fenner <fenner@parc.xerox.com>
To: alan@cymru.net
Cc: linux-security@redhat.com
Date: Thu, 21 Nov 1996 17:27:04 PST
Resent-From: linux-security@redhat.com
Reply-To: linux-security@redhat.com

>Also if you remember I moaned at someone [Bill Fenner I think] on here who 
>posted a big ping program that assumed the resolver gave back good lengths 
>and got a reply saying I was talking crap.. now you know why I said it.

You're right.  I should never have released a program that I originally
wrote for a limited audience, and for that, I apologize.  (The resolver
library on the system on which I wrote the program did not have that
bug).

  Bill


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