Date: Wed, 1 Aug 2007 07:48:36 -0500 From: Jeffrey Goldberg <jeffrey@goldmark.org> To: "A.G. Russell IV" <arussell@bifrost.hos.net> Cc: Zbigniew Szalbot <zbigniew@szalbot.homedns.org>, dougb@freebsd.org, Freebsd questions <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: Waiting for BIND security announcement Message-ID: <426DE541-FB51-44FF-B7F4-B34E0F9A7861@goldmark.org> In-Reply-To: <20070801030504.GA3773@bifrost.agrussell.com> References: <499c70c0707260136hea82f27s87dfa53432d0e409@mail.gmail.com> <94c6ae7ae570814564d364bfe9aad8ea@szalbot.homedns.org> <20070801030504.GA3773@bifrost.agrussell.com>
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On Jul 31, 2007, at 10:05 PM, A.G. Russell IV wrote: >> On Thu, Jul 26, 2007 at 10:48:10AM +0200, Zbigniew Szalbot wrote: >>>> On 7/25/07, Doug Barton <dougb@freebsd.org> wrote: >>>> >>>>> RELENG_6 was updated shortly after the release of 9.3.4. I'll be >>>>> updating RELENG_[56] with the new 9.3.4-P1 version after I'm done >>>>> regression testing it, which should be some time tonight. Same for >>>>> updating HEAD with 9.4.1-P1. >>>>> I am running FreeBSD 6.2-RELEASE-p6 and BIND 9.3.3 (not from >>>>> ports but >>> installed with the system. At least when I do pgk_info -Ix bind I >>> am told >>> there is no such package installed). Where can I find information >>> on BIND >>> upgrade? I tried freebsd-update but it did not think I needed any >>> updates >>> :) > mine, which was updated a few minutes ago, is still at bind 9.3.3 It appears that BIND has only been fixed in -STABLE and -CURRENT, but not in -RELEASE. Does anyone know if there are plans to get this patched in 6.2? For me it makes little difference since I am not (yet) running named in a publicly accessible way. But my medium term plans for my DNS do involve me running a public nameserver on the latest RELEASE with all patches. It does worry me if this kind of thing doesn't get patched in the latest RELEASE. -j -- Jeffrey Goldberg http://www.goldmark.org/jeff/
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