10 Aug
2007
10 Aug
'07
1:07 a.m.
In article <200708100143.l7A1hNSY034263@drugs.dv.isc.org> you write:
I suspect that the origin of the myth that DNS/TCP is more dangerous than DNS/UDP is that the first root expliot of named was over TCP not UDP. There were later exploits that were UDP only which totally busted the myth but it continues to live.
Mark
Just to make it clear. This was BIND 4/8 code and the bugs were addressed in the last millennia. To date there are no known root exploits for BIND 9. Mark