Date: Thu, 14 Aug 1997 19:10:34 +0200 From: sthaug@nethelp.no To: imp@rover.village.org Cc: cschuber@uumail.gov.bc.ca, freebsd-security@FreeBSD.ORG, security-officer@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: CERT Advisory CA-97.22 - BIND - the Berkeley Internet Name Daemon Message-ID: <21122.871578634@verdi.nethelp.no> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Thu, 14 Aug 1997 09:25:46 -0600" References: <E0wz1mU-0000Wf-00@rover.village.org>
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> : This has been discussed on BUGTRAQ over the last 3-4 months. We now have a > : CERT advisory discussing this. > : > : When will BIND-8.1.1 be available in the 2.2 branch? > > 8.1.1 isn't even in the -current branch yet, so one could conjecture > that it will be a while. Bind 4.9.6 and Bind 8.1.1 have incompatible > boot file formats, so adding 8.1.1 into the 2.2 branch, or even the > -current banch, is complicated by compatibility concerns. > > 8.1.1 builds out of the box on a FreeBSD system. There have been > efforts made to make it a port so it is even easier. Also, note that according to Paul Vixie there is no real reason to upgrade to 8.1.1 because of the problems mentioned in this CERT advisory - 4.9.6 is fine. Steinar Haug, Nethelp consulting, sthaug@nethelp.no ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Subject: Re: CERT Advisory CA-97.22 - BIND - the Berkeley Internet Name Daemon From: Paul A Vixie <paul@vix.com> To: cert-advisory-request@cert.org Cc: bind-workers@vix.com Date: Wed, 13 Aug 1997 14:06:46 -0700 Reply-To: Paul A Vixie <paul@vix.com> I am still not happy with this text. People who just want to fix this problem should feel free to upgrade to 4.9.6, without touching 8.1.1 at all.
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