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Re: how to get people to upgrade? (Re: The weak link? DNS)

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Dave Israel)
Wed Mar 26 11:38:42 2003

From: Dave Israel <davei@algx.net>
Date: Wed, 26 Mar 2003 11:37:17 -0500
To: Bill Woodcock <woody@pch.net>
Cc: "Jeffrey C. Ollie" <jeff@ollie.clive.ia.us>, nanog@merit.edu
In-Reply-To: Re: how to get people to upgrade? (Re: The weak link? DNS) (Bill Woodcock)
Reply-To: davei@algx.net
Errors-To: owner-nanog-outgoing@merit.edu


On 3/26/2003 at 08:31:40 -0800, Bill Woodcock said:
> 
>       On 26 Mar 2003, Jeffrey C. Ollie wrote:
>     > What I would like to see is somewhat of the idea in
>     > reverse.  The ISC would host a zone that would contain TXT records with
>     > security/bug advisories for every version:
> 
> I really like this solution.  It seems clean and unobjectionable, while
> getting the job done.

Plus, it is expandable to other common services that might want this
service, like sendmail or OpenSSH.



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