From: Paul Vixie [mailto:vixie@mfnx.net] Sent: Saturday, January 27, 2001 9:55 PM

asr@latency.net (Adam Rothschild) writes:

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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Note that BIND 8 is in "end-of-life", having been replaced by BIND 9.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.