[57033] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: how to get people to upgrade? (Re: The weak link? DNS)
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Kurt Erik Lindqvist)
Thu Mar 27 03:46:35 2003
Date: Thu, 27 Mar 2003 09:46:54 +0100
Cc: nanog@merit.edu
To: Paul Vixie <vixie@vix.com>
From: Kurt Erik Lindqvist <kurtis@kurtis.pp.se>
In-Reply-To: <g3y932b17h.fsf@as.vix.com>
Errors-To: owner-nanog-outgoing@merit.edu
> 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.
>
Isn't the problem with this that in order to get the code out, people
need to upgrade and you therefor risk ending up with only notifying the
people that upgrade anyway?
- kurtis -
