From owner-freebsd-security Thu Nov 11 12:32:10 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-security@freebsd.org Received: from s01.arpa-canada.net (s01.arpa-canada.net [209.104.122.2]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 84FF514BE9 for ; Thu, 11 Nov 1999 12:31:56 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from matt@BabCom.ORG) Received: by s01.arpa-canada.net (Postfix, from userid 1001) id 0EC54B885; Thu, 11 Nov 1999 15:31:54 -0500 (EST) Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by s01.arpa-canada.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id 09133E; Thu, 11 Nov 1999 15:31:54 -0500 (EST) Date: Thu, 11 Nov 1999 15:31:53 -0500 (EST) From: matt X-Sender: matt@s01.arpa-canada.net To: Dan Busarow Cc: freebsd-security@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: BIND NXT Bug Vulnerability In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-security@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org On Thu, 11 Nov 1999, Dan Busarow wrote: [...] : Relying on ports for crital bits such as bind and sendmail seems, uh, : risky? Considering that the version of bind included in -STABLE (supped 10-14-99) is 8.1.2, so I hate to rely on ports, but this does seem to be the quickest method for keeping up on new versions. There is virtually no difference in compiling bind from the ports or from raw source, the former is simply an easier way, and keeps things in order with little hassle. : Dan : -- : Dan Busarow 949 443 4172 : Dana Point Communications, Inc. dan@dpcsys.com : Dana Point, California 83 09 EF 59 E0 11 89 B4 8D 09 DB FD E1 DD 0C 82 Matt -- "If the primates that we came from had known that someday politicians would come out of the...the gene pool, they'd a stayed up in the trees and written evolution off as a bad idea. Hell, I always thought the opposable thumb was overrated." -Sheridan, "A Distant Star" To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-security" in the body of the message