[34098] in North American Network Operators' Group
RE: sorry to ruin several of your evenings...
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Roeland Meyer)
Sun Jan 28 01:04:33 2001
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From: Roeland Meyer <rmeyer@mhsc.com>
To: 'Paul Vixie' <vixie@mfnx.net>, nanog@merit.edu
Date: Sat, 27 Jan 2001 22:00:21 -0800
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> From: Paul Vixie [mailto:vixie@mfnx.net]
> Sent: Saturday, January 27, 2001 9:55 PM
> asr@latency.net (Adam Rothschild) writes:
>
> > Not to disrespect Mr. Vixie, or detract from the operational content
> > of the original post, but I'd like to recommend another solution to
> > these recently reported security holes in BIND: install djbdns
> > <http://www.djbdns.org/>.
>
> No disrespect taken. The README for 8.2.3 says:
>
> Note that BIND 8 is in "end-of-life", having been
> replaced by BIND 9.
> See http://www.isc.org/ for more details.
>
> And indeed, BIND 9 has been in preparation for several years,
> has been in an
> extended test release phase for the last 6 or 8 months, and
> with the release
> of 9.1.0 a few weeks ago, is a far better choice than BIND
> 8.2.3 for most
> systems. It's also compatible with BIND 8's configuration
> file syntax.
Thank you Paul, the web-site wasn't clear on that. Therefor, I haven't even
looked at it much.
