[18946] in bugtraq
Re: kyxspam: isc loses mind
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Paul A Vixie)
Fri Feb 2 03:55:20 2001
Message-Id: <200102011925.LAA13414@redpaul.mfnx.net>
Date: Thu, 1 Feb 2001 11:25:06 -0800
Reply-To: Paul A Vixie <vixie@MFNX.NET>
From: Paul A Vixie <vixie@MFNX.NET>
X-To: Dragos Ruiu <dr@kyx.net>
To: BUGTRAQ@SECURITYFOCUS.COM
In-Reply-To: Message from Dragos Ruiu <dr@kyx.net> of "Thu, 01 Feb 2001
05:03:14 PST." <0102010632410C.27656@smp.kyx.net>
> Sorry for the strong words, but the ISC is fucked up, apparently. But I
> should have guessed that when I first (tried to) read the later versions
> of bind source (with apologies to Bill Norton the original project
> manager for that development). I just had to be slapped in the face with
> it again, repeatedly, to wake up to this harsh reality. Someone, please,
> tell me there is an another alternative - because with the direction it's
> headed now, the Internet based on bind isn't looking like it's going to
> be a very good, reliable, or secure, network.
what you need can be found at http://www.isc.org/products/BIND/bind9.html.
(anyone who looked at bind4's internals, or bind8's, and puked, needs to
look at bind9, which is completely different.)