From owner-cvs-all Thu Aug 22 7:58:22 2002 Delivered-To: cvs-all@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.FreeBSD.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B4F1337B400; Thu, 22 Aug 2002 07:58:17 -0700 (PDT) Received: from blues.jpj.net (blues.jpj.net [208.210.80.156]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id BFC7E43E4A; Thu, 22 Aug 2002 07:58:16 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from trevor@jpj.net) Received: from blues.jpj.net (localhost.jpj.net [127.0.0.1]) by blues.jpj.net (8.12.3/8.12.3) with ESMTP id g7MEvxwO091163; Thu, 22 Aug 2002 10:57:59 -0400 (EDT) (envelope-from trevor@jpj.net) Received: from localhost (trevor@localhost) by blues.jpj.net (8.12.3/8.12.3/Submit) with ESMTP id g7MEvvDm091160; Thu, 22 Aug 2002 10:57:57 -0400 (EDT) X-Authentication-Warning: blues.jpj.net: trevor owned process doing -bs Date: Thu, 22 Aug 2002 10:57:57 -0400 (EDT) From: Trevor Johnson To: "M. Warner Losh" Cc: danfe@regency.nsu.ru, , , , Subject: Re: cvs commit: src/contrib/bind CHANGES INSTALL Makefile README Version src/contrib/bind/bin Makefile src/contrib/bind/bin/addr addr.c src/contrib/bind/bin/dig dig.c src/contrib/bind/bin/dnskeygen dn In-Reply-To: <20020715.175327.03593087.imp@bsdimp.com> Message-ID: <20020822105238.K90733-100000@blues.jpj.net> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-cvs-all@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On 15 July 2002, M. Warner Losh wrote: > No. When someone has the time and energy to do it, then it will be > done. However, a MFC of a whole release of bind gets harder and > harder the farther back in time you go. IIRC it breaks binary > compatibility with the crufty old versions we have in RELENG_3 and > RELENG_2_2. Rumor has it that OpenBSD has an old BIND that has been audited for security. I haven't checked into it though. > The reason we did the resolve fix all the way back to 2.2 was that it > has existed for that long and was essentially a trivial to fix. It was /necessary/, for the compat22 and compat3x libraries. The older compat libraries may still have the bug. -- Trevor Johnson To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe cvs-all" in the body of the message