Reasons why BIND isn't being upgraded

Sat Feb 3 21:28:59 UTC 2001

> From: Adam Rothschild [mailto:asr at latency.net]
> Sent: Saturday, February 03, 2001 1:20 PM

> Why not just notify everyone at once?  That way, when vulnerabilities
> are discovered, people can take whatever action they deem appropriate
> to protect their infrastructure (write/release their own set of BIND
> patches?  upgrade to djbdns?  decide DNS is too daunting to manage
> in-house, and outsource to Nominum or UltraDNS instead?), rather than
> remain vulnerable, pending an official announcement from the
> appropriate sources.

Perhaps I'm missing something, isn't that what ISC does on the web-site
already?