Re: Bind 8 patches available

[Peter Bieringer <pb () bieringer de>]

--On Friday, November 15, 2002 10:03:57 AM +0000
John.Airey () rnib org uk wrote:

> I also
> recognise how vital that the root name servers and ccTLD servers
> are patched first (rather worringly, the ISC says the root name
> servers and TLD servers have to be patched first.

But does this really happen on root servers? 

version.bind CHAOS/TXT check shows:

# for i in a b c d e f g h i j k l m; do dig -c chaos -t txt
version.bind @$i.ROOT-SERVERS.NET.  | grep -v "^;;" | grep -v "^$" |
grep -v ";vers"; echo;  done


VGRS1:      a,j
8.2.5-REL:  b
8.3.3-REL:  c,e,f,h
8.3.1-REL:  d
8.3.2-REL:  g,i,k
BIND-8.3.1-MA-PATCH-JMB-01: l
8.3.3-REL:  m


Patches are available for:
BIND 8.3.3
 applies with some offsets on 8.3.2 and 8.3.1 (untested whether
compilable and working afterwards)

BIND 8.2.6
 applies on 8.2.5 (with unimportant minor changes, untested whether
compilable and working afterwards)


So from this point of view it could be happen.


BTW: are root DNS servers using the full and in many cases very
useful featureset of BIND? I thought they only serve one zone, namely
the "." and run some zonetransfer between each other, why not using
i.e. djbdns here ;-)


Any comments?

        Peter

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