North American Network Operators Group Date Prev | Date Next | Date Index | Thread Index | Author Index | Historical Re: how to get people to upgrade? (Re: The weak link? DNS)
* [email protected] (Paul Vixie) [Wed 26 Mar 2003, 16:24 CET]: > so here's a proposal. we (speaking for ISC here) could add a config option > (default to OFF) to make bind send some kind of registration packet at boot > time, containing an e-mail address for a technical contact for that server, > and perhaps its hostname as well. the destination would be configurable, and > the format would be open, and we would include in the distribution a tool > capable of catching these. any campus/WAN admin who wanted to run their own > "BIND registration system" could do so. anyone who wanted to simply config > their server to send registration data to ISC could do so. for data received > at ISC, we'd (a) keep it completely private other than public statistics, > (b) clean it of obvious trash (some people will sent registration data for > [email protected] just for fun; we know that), and (c) use the contact > information only in the event that a security defect discovered in that > version. remember, the default would be OFF. > > given such a feature, whose default was OFF, would anyone here who uses > BIND stop using it out of protest? if so plz answer publically (on nanog). So how much would this differ from `make install' running this shell script? --- cat <<EOF Congratulations! You have just successfully installed BIND ${VERSION}. If you want to be kept up-to-date on future announcements on BIND (for example, security vulnerabilities found in your version), say Y here. This is highly recommended! EOF read answer case "$answer" in y|Y|[Yy][Ee][Ss]) echo subscribe | mail [email protected] ;; *) echo "You can still see security updates at" echo "http://www.isc.org/products/bind/" echo "Please check there regularly!" esac --- -- Niels. -- subvertise me
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