[55396] in North American Network Operators' Group
OT: Re: WANAL (Re: What could have been done differently?)
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Rafi Sadowsky)
Tue Jan 28 13:56:25 2003
Date: Tue, 28 Jan 2003 20:53:59 +0200 (IST)
From: Rafi Sadowsky <rafi-nanog@meron.openu.ac.il>
To: Paul Vixie <vixie@vix.com>
Cc: nanog@merit.edu
In-Reply-To: <g3adhlgo64.fsf_-_@as.vix.com>
Errors-To: owner-nanog-outgoing@merit.edu
## On 2003-01-28 17:49 -0000 Paul Vixie typed:
PV>
PV> In any case, all of these makers (including Microsoft) seem to make a very
PV> good faith effort to get patches out when vulnerabilities are uncovered. I
PV> wish we could have put time bombs in older BINDs to force folks to upgrade,
PV> but that brings more problems than it takes away, so a lot of folks run old
PV> broken software even though our web page tells them not to.
PV>
Hi Paul,
What do you think of OpenBSD still installing BIND4 as part of the
default base system and recommended as secure by the OpenBSD FAQ ?
(See Section 6.8.3 in <http://www.openbsd.org/faq/faq6.html#DNS> )
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Thanks
Rafi
