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Date:      Thu, 11 Nov 1999 14:33:01 -0700 (MST)
From:      "Aaron D. Gifford" <agifford@infowest.com>
To:        security@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: BIND NXT Bug Vulnerability
Message-ID:  <19991111213301.D44DE20F66@infowest.com>

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Hmmm, looking at the ISC BIND web site page regarding versions and
the various newly discovered problems that affect them, it appears
that 8.1.2 is vulnerable to only 5 of the 6 new problems, but NOT
the NXT bug.

A few fun things I discovered when upgrading from 8.1.2 to 8.2.2-P3
include:

  The new version no longer supports "allow-query" sections in the
  "hint" zone type.  The old 8.1.2 happily accepted them without
  complaint.  When I restarted with the new version, this caused
  my "." zone hits file to be rejected, so all queries to the outside
  world stopped dead in the water until I removed that section.

  As was already mentioned in this thread, BIND's default installation
  and startup location for the named.conf file is /etc/named.conf
  while FreeBSD's is /etc/namedb/named.conf -- a quick symlink fixes
  that too.

Aaron out.


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