sorry to ruin several of your evenings...
Roeland Meyer
rmeyer at mhsc.com
Sun Jan 28 06:00:21 UTC 2001
> From: Paul Vixie [mailto:vixie at mfnx.net]
> Sent: Saturday, January 27, 2001 9:55 PM
> asr at latency.net (Adam Rothschild) writes:
>
> > Not to disrespect Mr. Vixie, or detract from the operational content
> > of the original post, but I'd like to recommend another solution to
> > these recently reported security holes in BIND: install djbdns
> > <http://www.djbdns.org/>.
>
> No disrespect taken. The README for 8.2.3 says:
>
> Note that BIND 8 is in "end-of-life", having been
> replaced by BIND 9.
> See http://www.isc.org/ for more details.
>
> And indeed, BIND 9 has been in preparation for several years,
> has been in an
> extended test release phase for the last 6 or 8 months, and
> with the release
> of 9.1.0 a few weeks ago, is a far better choice than BIND
> 8.2.3 for most
> systems. It's also compatible with BIND 8's configuration
> file syntax.
Thank you Paul, the web-site wasn't clear on that. Therefor, I haven't even
looked at it much.
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