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To: Doug Barton <DougB@FreeBSD.ORG>
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Subject: Re: libc flaw: BIND 9 closes most holes but also opens one
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At 03:44 PM 6/29/2002, Doug Barton wrote:

>        Non sequitur. I was responding to your claim that libbind was fixed
>only in 8.3.3. You are categorically wrong on that point. 

Not unless ISC is lying, which of course it would have no
reason to do. See

http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=bind-announce&m=102527570707030&w=2

which says that libbind was fixed between 8.3.2 and 8.3.3.

>        Only if you're using something that links against it. IMO you're better
>off just not having [libbind] around. 

Some things link with it. I believe that Sendmail is among them.

--Brett


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