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Re: [NANOG] RE: [NANOG] Re: Reasons why BIND isn't being upgraded
From: Pim van Riezen <pi () vuurwerk nl>
Date: Fri, 2 Feb 2001 12:58:35 +0100
On Fri, 2 Feb 2001, Roeland Meyer wrote:
Pete Elke's point about preproduction testing could perhaps be turned from a combative tone to the constructive without loss of information.Isn't that why NSI is running a stealth master root server ... so they _are able_ to do pre-production testing of zone files? In the past few years, there were a lot of root server outages that would have been prevented by that practice.
To be honest, yes it wuold've saved me some extra frustration if I had known there would be such issues. Yes, a test situation is ideal to get these changes figured out. I just counted on it to be a trivial upgrade and it wasn't. Perhaps, in the interest of Internet Security, it would not be a bad idea if ISC or someone else were to come with an 8.2.2-P8 to address _just_ the security issues to lower the barrier-of-entry to a secure version of bind8. Security fixes are very urgent on my list, I didn't want to lose any time getting it out of ther door. That's what bit me and now I know that the next time there's a Panic about vulnerabilities in BIND, being vulnerable for an extra hour while testing out the patches off-site on a test system may be worth the risk. Cheers, Pi
Current thread:
- Re: [NANOG] Re: Reasons why BIND isn't being upgraded Sean Donelan (Feb 24)
- Re: [NANOG] Re: Reasons why BIND isn't being upgraded Eric A. Hall (Feb 24)
- Re: [NANOG] Re: Reasons why BIND isn't being upgraded Joshua Goodall (Feb 24)
- Re: [NANOG] Re: [NANOG] Re: Reasons why BIND isn't being upgraded Pim van Riezen (Feb 24)
- <Possible follow-ups>
- RE: [NANOG] Re: Reasons why BIND isn't being upgraded Roeland Meyer (Feb 24)
- Re: [NANOG] RE: [NANOG] Re: Reasons why BIND isn't being upgraded Pim van Riezen (Feb 24)
- Re: [NANOG] Re: Reasons why BIND isn't being upgraded Sean Donelan (Feb 24)
- Re: [NANOG] Re: Reasons why BIND isn't being upgraded Eric A. Hall (Feb 24)