From owner-freebsd-arch Thu Feb 7 22:54:58 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-arch@freebsd.org Received: from a96180.upc-a.chello.nl (a96180.upc-a.chello.nl [62.163.96.180]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 172FC37B404; Thu, 7 Feb 2002 22:54:44 -0800 (PST) Received: by a96180.upc-a.chello.nl (Postfix, from userid 1001) id AAB63216F; Fri, 8 Feb 2002 07:54:41 +0100 (CET) Date: Fri, 8 Feb 2002 07:54:41 +0100 From: Jeroen Ruigrok/asmodai To: John Hay Cc: "Jacques A. Vidrine" , freebsd-arch@freebsd.org Subject: Re: cvs commit: src/contrib/bind FREEBSD-Xlist Message-ID: <20020208065440.GB52378@daemon.ninth-circle.org> References: <20020206152311.GB66083@madman.nectar.cc> <200202061530.g16FUq970877@zibbi.icomtek.csir.co.za> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <200202061530.g16FUq970877@zibbi.icomtek.csir.co.za> User-Agent: Mutt/1.3.24i Organisation: Ninth Circle Enterprises Sender: owner-freebsd-arch@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG -On [20020206 16:45], John Hay (jhay@icomtek.csir.co.za) wrote: >Well like I tried to imply in my previous email, you can look at >"upgrading to v9.x" as a feature enhancement or measured against the >history of v8 as preventative security fixes. :-) That argument does not hold much ground. When I discussed BIND 9 with Kris Kennaway a bunch of months ago he decided to look at the code a bit. A day later the BIND folks had a patchset to fix a lot of security problems noted by one auditor. -- Jeroen Ruigrok van der Werven / asmodai / Kita no Mono / xMach coreteam asmodai@[wxs.nl|xmach.org], finger asmodai@ninth-circle.org http://www.softweyr.com/asmodai/ A woman either loves or hates; she knows no medium. - Publilius To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-arch" in the body of the message