Date: Wed, 15 Nov 2000 10:53:16 -0800 From: Cy Schubert <cschuber@uumail.gov.bc.ca> To: Mike Silbersack <silby@silby.com> Cc: Matt Heckaman <matt@ARPA.MAIL.NET>, Cy Schubert - ITSD Open Systems Group <Cy.Schubert@uumail.gov.bc.ca>, Kris Kennaway <kris@FreeBSD.ORG>, Evren Yurtesen <eyurtese@turkuamk.fi>, freebsd-security@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: BIND Version 8.2.2 patchlevel 7 (Released November 9, 2000) Message-ID: <200011151854.eAFIsE012778@passer.osg.gov.bc.ca> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Wed, 15 Nov 2000 12:38:23 CST." <Pine.BSF.4.21.0011151237300.60618-100000@achilles.silby.com>
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In message <Pine.BSF.4.21.0011151237300.60618-100000@achilles.silby.com> , Mike Silbersack writes: > > On Wed, 15 Nov 2000, Matt Heckaman wrote: > > > On Wed, 15 Nov 2000, Cy Schubert - ITSD Open Systems Group wrote: > > ... > > : You must be running an old version of 4.x. Bind 8.2.3-T5B was merged > > : into -stable on Jul 3, 2000 and 8.2.3-T6B as MFCed on Nov 2. > > > > Not quite :) > > > > I have two machines on 4.1.1-RELEASE, which are new and were installed as > > 4.0 originally then upgraded to 4.1.1-RELEASE. The holdback server is > > 3.5-STABLE and I simply can't afford to take it down for an upgrade. I'm > > not comfortable doing a make world upgrade on 3.5 -> 4.x, mainly because > > of the mess it will probably be to clean out old binaries and so forth, > > and like I said, downtime on this machine is a huge no-no. The only way > > I'd ever consider it is to format and install 4.x clean, then dump the > > user info back from tape, but that would take too long.. :) > > Well, as I recall, BIND builds pretty easily on FreeBSD. You could always > manually build 8.2.3-T6B if you need it. Or, creating a local port from the bind8 port in /usr/ports is simple. Just update Makefile, distinfo, and if the patches don't apply, spend 1/2 hour fixing them up so they do. Then do a diff -urPN and submit the patchs as a PR. Regards, Phone: (250)387-8437 Cy Schubert Fax: (250)387-5766 Team Leader, Sun/DEC Team Internet: Cy.Schubert@osg.gov.bc.ca Open Systems Group, ITSD, ISTA Province of BC To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-security" in the body of the message
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