[57000] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: how to get people to upgrade? (Re: The weak link? DNS)
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Niels Bakker)
Wed Mar 26 11:48:11 2003
Date: Wed, 26 Mar 2003 17:47:05 +0100
From: Niels Bakker <niels=nanog@bakker.net>
To: nanog@merit.edu
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* vixie@vix.com (Paul Vixie) [Wed 26 Mar 2003, 16:24 CET]:
> so here's a proposal. we (speaking for ISC here) could add a config option
> (default to OFF) to make bind send some kind of registration packet at boot
> time, containing an e-mail address for a technical contact for that server,
> and perhaps its hostname as well. the destination would be configurable, and
> the format would be open, and we would include in the distribution a tool
> capable of catching these. any campus/WAN admin who wanted to run their own
> "BIND registration system" could do so. anyone who wanted to simply config
> their server to send registration data to ISC could do so. for data received
> at ISC, we'd (a) keep it completely private other than public statistics,
> (b) clean it of obvious trash (some people will sent registration data for
> president@whitehouse.gov just for fun; we know that), and (c) use the contact
> information only in the event that a security defect discovered in that
> version. remember, the default would be OFF.
>
> given such a feature, whose default was OFF, would anyone here who uses
> BIND stop using it out of protest? if so plz answer publically (on nanog).
So how much would this differ from `make install' running this shell
script?
---
cat <<EOF
Congratulations! You have just successfully installed BIND
${VERSION}. If you want to be kept up-to-date on future
announcements on BIND (for example, security vulnerabilities
found in your version), say Y here. This is highly recommended!
EOF
read answer
case "$answer" in
y|Y|[Yy][Ee][Ss])
echo subscribe | mail bind-announce-request@isc.org
;;
*)
echo "You can still see security updates at"
echo "http://www.isc.org/products/bind/"
echo "Please check there regularly!"
esac
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