[USN-1025-1] Bind vulnerabilities

[MR ZenWiz]

On Wed, Dec 1, 2010 at 7:25 PM, Christopher Chan
<christopher.chan at bradbury.edu.hk> wrote:
> 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.
>
Oh, you were answering the issue, not my specific question.

Gotcha.  - Thanks for the clarification.  (Since I don't run a DNS
server, it won't matter.)