From owner-freebsd-security Wed Nov 15 10:54:30 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-security@freebsd.org Received: from point.osg.gov.bc.ca (point.osg.gov.bc.ca [142.32.102.44]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2062337B4C5; Wed, 15 Nov 2000 10:54:24 -0800 (PST) Received: (from daemon@localhost) by point.osg.gov.bc.ca (8.8.7/8.8.8) id KAA27785; Wed, 15 Nov 2000 10:54:23 -0800 Received: from passer.osg.gov.bc.ca(142.32.110.29) via SMTP by point.osg.gov.bc.ca, id smtpda27783; Wed Nov 15 10:54:20 2000 Received: (from uucp@localhost) by passer.osg.gov.bc.ca (8.11.1/8.9.1) id eAFIsE012778; Wed, 15 Nov 2000 10:54:14 -0800 (PST) Message-Id: <200011151854.eAFIsE012778@passer.osg.gov.bc.ca> Received: from localhost.osg.gov.bc.ca(127.0.0.1), claiming to be "passer.osg.gov.bc.ca" via SMTP by localhost.osg.gov.bc.ca, id smtpdC12498; Wed Nov 15 10:53:17 2000 X-Mailer: exmh version 2.2 06/23/2000 with nmh-1.0.4 Reply-To: Cy Schubert - ITSD Open Systems Group X-OS: FreeBSD 4.1.1-RELEASE X-Sender: cschuber To: Mike Silbersack Cc: Matt Heckaman , Cy Schubert - ITSD Open Systems Group , Kris Kennaway , Evren Yurtesen , freebsd-security@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: BIND Version 8.2.2 patchlevel 7 (Released November 9, 2000) In-reply-to: Your message of "Wed, 15 Nov 2000 12:38:23 CST." Date: Wed, 15 Nov 2000 10:53:16 -0800 From: Cy Schubert Sender: owner-freebsd-security@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org In message , 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