North American Network Operators Group

Date Prev | Date Next | Date Index | Thread Index | Author Index | Historical

OT: Re: WANAL (Re: What could have been done differently?)

  • From: Rafi Sadowsky
  • Date: Tue Jan 28 13:58:13 2003

## On 2003-01-28 17:49 -0000 Paul Vixie typed:

PV> 
PV> In any case, all of these makers (including Microsoft) seem to make a very
PV> good faith effort to get patches out when vulnerabilities are uncovered.  I
PV> wish we could have put time bombs in older BINDs to force folks to upgrade,
PV> but that brings more problems than it takes away, so a lot of folks run old
PV> broken software even though our web page tells them not to.
PV> 

Hi Paul,

 What do you think of OpenBSD still installing BIND4 as part of the
default base system and  recommended as secure by the OpenBSD FAQ ?
(See Section 6.8.3 in <http://www.openbsd.org/faq/faq6.html#DNS> )

-- 
Thanks
	Rafi