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Re: [SECURITY] [DSA 1605-1] DNS vulnerability impact on the libc stub resolver



On Tue, Jul 08, 2008 at 07:50:44PM +0200, Florian Weimer wrote:
> > Why is this phrased in a way that it prefers BIND as a recursive resolver,
> > when that same software was *only just* patched to be acceptable for the
> > same purpose?
> 
> PowerDNS is not available on all architectures, and Unbound and tinydns
> are not part of etch.
> 
> So it's lack of alternatives, more or less.

Sigh.

Speaking of which, it looks like the pdns-recursor bug #395801 may
no longer be relevant (it was in 2006). I'll go file a new bug.

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