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Date:      Thu, 10 Jul 2008 01:22:06 +0200
From:      Marian Hettwer <MH@kernel32.de>
To:        Chris Palmer <chris@noncombatant.org>
Cc:        freebsd-security@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: BIND update?
Message-ID:  <4875481E.4000100@kernel32.de>
In-Reply-To: <20080709182340.GD55473@noncombatant.org>
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Hi Chris,

Chris Palmer schrieb:
> So I'm not too worried about the lack of urgency from the FreeBSD security
> team on this particular issue. It's not news that DNS is insecure and that
> BIND has a bug. Nobody should have been depending on the security of DNS or
> on a bulletproof BIND.
>
>   
True words!
However, since the SecTeam of FreeBSD always did a great job, in this 
specific case, which had quite a huge coverage in the "press", at least 
a Heads Up to freebsd-security@ saying something like "Stay tuned for a 
patch folks, we're investigating" would have been appropriate.
When everybody tries to get mad, and that's what happened, a statement 
like that could have calmed things done in the first place.
But maybe I missed that heads up, 'cause I jumped into this discussion 
quite late...

Well, anyway, SecTeam, keep up the good work :)

Cheers,
./Marian




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