I've taken Sonny's suggestion and upgraded to the bind9 package. Initially I thought I had a serious problem, as named was not answering any queries, however it seems to have "fixed itself". Ordinarily that would spook me, but in this situation I think I'd rather have spooky software than known-to-be-exploitable software :-) Thanks for the suggestion, Sonny. -- Jeff S Wheeler jsw@five-elements.com Software Development Five Elements, Inc http://www.five-elements.com/~jsw/ On Tue, 2002-11-12 at 13:53, Sonny Kupka wrote: > Why not use Bind 9.2.1.. > > It's in woody.. When I came over from Slackware to Debian I installed it > and haven't looked back.. > > The file format was the same from 8.3.* to 9.2.1 I didn't have to do anything.. > > --- > Sonny > > > At 01:08 PM 11/12/2002 -0500, Jeff S Wheeler wrote: > >See ISC.ORG for information on new BIND vulnerabilities. Current bind > >package in woody is 8.3.3, which is an affected version. Patches are > >not available yet, it seems. > > > >http://www.isc.org/products/BIND/bind-security.html > > > >-- > >Jeff S Wheeler jsw@five-elements.com > >Software Development Five Elements, Inc > >http://www.five-elements.com/~jsw/ > >
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