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Re: bind9 LTS



[moving to the ML]

On Sat 23 Mar 2024 at 06:14am -04, Roberto C. Sánchez wrote:

> If you happen to need any help or review, I have worked on some
> complex issues for bind9 in the past and I would be happy to assist.

I've started looking at the first vulnerability, CVE-2023-4408, and have
some confusions/questions.

The ISC website that 9.11 is EOL as of March 2022.  But there is a lot
of activity on the 9.11 branch, including a fix for this CVE.  Are we
generally able to assume that changes are intended not to break anything
for users?

For example, commit 2fc28056b3 is a backport of API changes, and I can
do the work to *confirm* that they don't appear to break anything for
users, but I wouldn't like to rely on my own *discovery* as to whether
they might break anything.

At any point did you consider just backporting snapshots of upstream's
9.11 branch into LTS?  Do you know if any other vendors do that?  I'm
wondering if, on balance, that might be safest -- if, that is, upstream
are indeed not intending to break anything.

Finally, do you you have any notes on testing?

Thanks.

-- 
Sean Whitton

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