[10230] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Sprint?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Paul A Vixie)
Wed Jun 25 13:47:32 1997
To: nanog@merit.edu
In-reply-to: Your message of "Wed, 25 Jun 1997 08:31:06 PDT."
<199706251531.IAA29515@typo.org>
Date: Wed, 25 Jun 1997 10:25:54 -0700
From: Paul A Vixie <paul@vix.com>
> The cause of this is not the OS, per se, its the version of BIND that
> it incorporates. Recent versions do character checking before
> accepting the response. This avoids nasty buffer overflows and the
> like.
yes.
> I can sympathize with Sprint's delay since my network has the same
> problem. On OSen which included this newer version of BIND for which I
> had source, I had to kinda "break" it to get name resolution until
> such time as people decide on a new naming schema.
wierd. all you have to say on 4.9.6 is:
check-names response ignore
whereas on 8.1.1 it's
options {
check-names response ignore;
};
note the ";" in the second example.
what part of the source did you have to tweak?
