[USN-1025-1] Bind vulnerabilities

Christopher Chan christopher.chan at bradbury.edu.hk
Thu Dec 2 03:25:38 UTC 2010


On Thursday, December 02, 2010 10:15 AM, MR ZenWiz wrote:
> On Wed, Dec 1, 2010 at 4:38 PM, Christopher Chan
> <christopher.chan at bradbury.edu.hk>  wrote:
>>
>> Just run djbdns and don't worry about such things.
>>
> Never heard of that one before, but even from appears in Synaptic for
> this I fail to see how it will help.  Please elucidate.
>

BIND is a name server package.

djbdns is a SECURE name server package.

Only one security issue (note: not a security hole) after years of 
scrutiny and that one has been plugged after DJB paid up the bounty.

Use djbdns and don't worry about security.




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