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

Thu Mar 27 08:46:54 UTC 2003

> 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 at 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 -