From owner-freebsd-arch Fri Feb 8 0:53:46 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-arch@freebsd.org Received: from zibbi.icomtek.csir.co.za (zibbi.icomtek.csir.co.za [146.64.24.58]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B642A37B41B; Fri, 8 Feb 2002 00:53:36 -0800 (PST) Received: (from jhay@localhost) by zibbi.icomtek.csir.co.za (8.11.6/8.11.6) id g188rRO39489; Fri, 8 Feb 2002 10:53:27 +0200 (SAT) (envelope-from jhay) From: John Hay Message-Id: <200202080853.g188rRO39489@zibbi.icomtek.csir.co.za> Subject: Re: cvs commit: src/contrib/bind FREEBSD-Xlist In-Reply-To: <20020208065440.GB52378@daemon.ninth-circle.org> from Jeroen Ruigrok/asmodai at "Feb 8, 2002 07:54:41 am" To: asmodai@wxs.nl (Jeroen Ruigrok/asmodai) Date: Fri, 8 Feb 2002 10:53:27 +0200 (SAT) Cc: nectar@freebsd.org, freebsd-arch@freebsd.org X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4ME+ PL54 (25)] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit 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. So are they then selective of what they put on their security page? http://www.isc.org/products/BIND/bind-security.html Or are we just lucky that the dark side haven't turned their efforts to v9 servers yet? John -- John Hay -- John.Hay@icomtek.csir.co.za / jhay@FreeBSD.org To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-arch" in the body of the message