Reasons why BIND isn't being upgraded

Sat Feb 3 00:41:41 UTC 2001

> Date: Fri, 2 Feb 2001 15:42:49 -0800 (PST)
> From: Patrick Greenwell <patrick at cybernothing.org>
> Sender: owner-nanog at merit.edu
> 
> P.S. AboveNet is taking the latest BIND vunerability(ies) seriously enough
> that they are beginning wholescale scans of their address space. Draw your
> own conclusions related to masking version numbers.

As far as I know, Paul Vixie is the CTO for AboveNet's parent
organization. I think it's pretty clear that they understand the issues.

R. Kevin Oberman, Network Engineer
Energy Sciences Network (ESnet)
Ernest O. Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab)
E-mail: oberman at es.net			Phone: +1 510 486-8634