Re: bind worm

[Hall Stevenson <hallstevenson@mindspring.com>]

* Bill White (bill.white@griggsinst.org) [010323 17:45]:
> > 
> > Note that 
> >     Package: bind
> >     Version: 1:8.2.3-4
> > 
> 
> This is very confusing to me.  It looks to me as if the version of bind
> in stable is 8.2.2p7-1.  It looks to me as if you have to go to unstable
> to get 8.2.3-4.  So, when you say we should "run our updates", does that
> means we should update a production environment to unstable?  Seems risky
> to me.

I do run "unstable", but "apt-cache show bind" reports this (irrelevant
parts snipped):

Package: bind
Priority: optional
Maintainer: Bdale Garbee <bdale@gag.com>
Version: 1:8.2.3-4
Depends: libc6 (>= 2.2.1-2), netbase
Filename: pool/main/b/bind/bind_8.2.3-4_i386.deb


Package: bind
Version: 1:8.2.3-0.potato.1
Priority: optional
Maintainer: Bdale Garbee <bdale@gag.com>
Depends: libc6 (>= 2.1.2), netbase
Filename:
dists/potato/updates/main/binary-i386/bind_8.2.3-0.potato.1_i386.deb


Regards
Hall