From owner-freebsd-stable Fri Mar 23 14:51:28 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from level3.dynacom.net (level3.dynacom.net [206.107.213.213]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 7D7E937B718 for ; Fri, 23 Mar 2001 14:51:21 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from kstewart@urx.com) Received: (qmail 7689 invoked by uid 0); 23 Mar 2001 23:51:15 -0000 Received: from dsl1-160.dynacom.net (HELO urx.com) (206.159.132.160) by mail.urx.com with SMTP; 23 Mar 2001 23:51:15 -0000 Message-ID: <3ABBD362.1BD7FD4@urx.com> Date: Fri, 23 Mar 2001 14:51:14 -0800 From: Kent Stewart Reply-To: kstewart@urx.com Organization: Dynacom X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.76 [en] (Windows NT 5.0; U) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Rich Morin Cc: freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: upgrading to bind-8.2.3 References: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Rich Morin wrote: > > I just received a security notice about a really nasty worm that is > using a hole in bind to infect Linux boxes. > > >Late last night, the SANS Institute (through its Global Incident > >Analysis Center) uncovered a dangerous new worm that appears to be > >spreading rapidly across the Internet. It scans the Internet looking > >for Linux computers with a known vulnerability. It infects the > >vulnerable machines, steals the password file (sending it to a > >China.com site), installs other hacking tools, and forces the newly > >infected machine to begin scanning the Internet looking for other > >victims. > > > >Several experts from the security community worked through the night to > >decompose the worm's code and engineer a utility to help you discover > >if the Lion worm has affected your organization. > > > >Updates to this announcement will be posted at the SANS web site, > >http://www.sans.org > >... > > So, it seems like a Good Idea to upgrade my copy of bind (:-). I > pulled down the port for bind-8.2.3-REL and it seems to build just > fine. Before I install it, however, I thought I'd ask if anyone > has run into installation and/or configuration issues. I thought that was what is already built into 4-stable right now. I did a named -v and 8.2.3-REL pops up. Kent > > -r > -- > http://www.cfcl.com/rdm - home page, resume, etc. > http://www.cfcl.com/Meta/md_fb.html - The FreeBSD Browser > email: rdm@cfcl.com; phone: +1 650-873-7841 > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message -- Kent Stewart Richland, WA mailto:kbstew99@hotmail.com http://kstewart.urx.com/kstewart/index.html FreeBSD News http://daily.daemonnews.org/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message