I think he meant the compromised hosts, or the hosts that the attacks were coming from, were all RH 5.1 with an old rev of BIND. My 3.0-current box with 8.1.2 handled it fine, as well. At 22:30 11/16/98 -0500, Adam Rothschild wrote:
On Mon, 16 Nov 1998, Edward S. Marshall wrote:
The attacked hosts have all exhibited the same characteristics: stock Red Hat 5.1 install, running (probably) the stock named that came with it,
Not entirely true. I watched a FreeBSD 2.2.x/BIND 8.1.2 box get tickled harmlessy...
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