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Re: Bind 8 bug experience
From: Chris Adams <cmadams () hiwaay net>
Date: Thu, 14 Nov 2002 08:57:12 -0600
Once upon a time, Michael Brennen <mbrennen () fni com> said:
Three bugs in bind 4 and 8 were announced this morning, November 12. At least one has the possibility of arbitrary code execution, and the ISC web site lists it as 'Serious'. At 13:02 CST this afternoon per the ISC announcement, about an hour after receiving the bug announcement, I requested bind 8 patches from Lynda McGinley, Executive Director of ISC. I received a response from her roughly 8 hours later this evening that I had been added to the patch announce list. My thanks to Lynda for that, but she did not give direct information on where to get the patches, and I have received nothing from the patch announce list. I don't know when I can expect to receive anything -- tonight, next week, or next month?
I also (per the announcement from ISC) emailed Lynda McGinley requesting patches. I never received a response. I kept watch on the ISC web site and downloaded the patch last night (the file timestamps in the patch are all Oct 30 2002, so the patch was ready in plenty of time). We cannot upgrade some of our servers to BIND 9 because it (in my experience and in the experience of others) is not stable on Compaq/HP Tru64 Unix. Repeated messages on the BIND mailing list by myself and others have been ignored (except by other Tru64 users with the same problems), so as far as I know, no work is going on to fix BIND 9 on Tru64. We either run BIND 8 or don't run BIND (and despite the work involved in switching, running something other than BIND is looking good). -- Chris Adams <cmadams () hiwaay net> Systems and Network Administrator - HiWAAY Internet Services I don't speak for anybody but myself - that's enough trouble.
Current thread:
- Bind 8 bug experience Michael Brennen (Nov 14)
- Re: Bind 8 bug experience Glen Bishop (Nov 15)
- Re: Bind 8 bug experience Chris Adams (Nov 15)
- Re: Bind 8 bug experience Matthew Dixon Cowles (Nov 16)
- Re: Bind 8 bug experience Jeremy C. Reed (Nov 16)
- Re: Bind 8 bug experience Olaf Kirch (Nov 15)
- Re: Bind 8 bug experience Paul Theodoropoulos (Nov 18)
- Re: Bind 8 bug experience Olaf Kirch (Nov 15)