On Sat, Jan 27, 2001 at 07:46:23PM -0500, Adam Rothschild wrote:
On Fri, Jan 26, 2001 at 09:47:08PM -0800, Paul A Vixie wrote:
...but this one's important. Several serious security holes plugged.
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/>.
Or DENTS <http://sourceforge.net/projects/dents/>, created by the Mindspring technical team, spearheaded by Todd Lewis, whom I think is hearabouts. Certainly there are many approaches to DNS, and as several people have mentioned this month, genetic diversity in service provision, especially DNS, and most especially Root DNS, is A Good Thing. Thanks, though, to Paul for the heads up; I'd missed the announcement through other channels, and I'm pretty sure at least one breakin in my last 6 months came through a BIND hole. Cheers, -- jra -- Jay R. Ashworth jra@baylink.com Member of the Technical Staff Baylink The Suncoast Freenet The Things I Think Tampa Bay, Florida http://baylink.pitas.com +1 727 804 5015