Re: Vixie warns: DNS Changer ‘blackouts’ inevitable

Ken Pfeil ken at infosec101.org
Thu May 24 08:47:51 UTC 2012


Save the good scotch for lmhosts :)



On May 23, 2012, at 9:27 PM, George Herbert <george.herbert at gmail.com> wrote:

> On Wed, May 23, 2012 at 5:42 PM,  <valdis.kletnieks at vt.edu> wrote:
>> On Wed, 23 May 2012 13:09:09 -0700, Leo Bicknell said:
>> 
>>>   "In 1988, while employed by DEC, he started working on the popular
>>>    internet domain name server BIND, of which he was the primary author and
>>>    architect, until release 8."
>>> 
>>> ISC has spent some effort on properly documenting the history of
>>> BIND, and the result of that effort is located at:
>>> 
>>> http://www.isc.org/software/bind/history
>>> 
>>> You'll note there are two full paragraphs and a dozen folks involved
>>> before Paul had anything to do with BIND.
>> 
>> One could make the case that the releases before Paul got there weren't
>> exactly popular - how many DNS servers were in production in 1986? ;)
> 
> Please don't make me remember hosts.txt before I've had a chance to
> wrap up work, go home, and get some Scotch in...
> 
> 
> -- 
> -george william herbert
> george.herbert at gmail.com
> 




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