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Re: Reasons why BIND isn't being upgraded
From: J Bacher <jb () jbacher com>
Date: Sun, 4 Feb 2001 09:02:10 -0600 (CST)
Good. Reduce yourself to insults and don't even answer the [first] question.You're right about the insult, but the point remains -- it doesn't matter how long Sun takes. He isn't changing how the security information gets to the world, he's providing Sun a support channel for assistance integrating the security fix.
If a new distribution is available, why penalize those that don't need a distro from a vendor to perform an upgrade? That's the point. Big or small wrt to company size is irrelevant. This question may have already been answered but I dropped off early last night.
In my experience (being a paying Sun support contract customer) I've gotten security fixes from Sun in a time range from 2-6 hours. 6 hours was the longest time that I've experienced from handing them a security flaw they didn't know about until I had a valid patch in my hands. On a closed circuit channel for security updates.
I'm a paying customer with a different vendor. I use my experience from a few years ago to not rely on vendor knowledge let alone patches in emergency mode. The point is: there are many companies that don't pay for vendor support. They may or may not be big. Why would you or anyone else prefer to inject criticism toward their concern for network security (particularly in light of all of the pissing and moaning that goes on in this list wrt to this subject) just because they do things differently than you?
Current thread:
- Re: Reasons why BIND isn't being upgraded, (continued)
- Re: Reasons why BIND isn't being upgraded Simon Waters (Feb 24)
- Re: Reasons why BIND isn't being upgraded Jeffrey Meltzer (Feb 24)
- Re: Reasons why BIND isn't being upgraded jlewis (Feb 24)
- BIND, djbdns, commercialization jamie rishaw (Feb 24)
- genetic diversity w/ DNS bmanning (Feb 24)
- Re: genetic diversity w/ DNS ken harris. (Feb 24)
- Re: Reasons why BIND isn't being upgraded Paul Vixie (Feb 24)
- Re: Reasons why BIND isn't being upgraded Joe Rhett (Feb 24)
- Re: Reasons why BIND isn't being upgraded J Bacher (Feb 24)
- Re: Reasons why BIND isn't being upgraded Joe Rhett (Feb 24)
- Re: Reasons why BIND isn't being upgraded J Bacher (Feb 24)
- Re: Reasons why BIND isn't being upgraded jamie rishaw (Feb 24)
- Re: Reasons why BIND isn't being upgraded Adam Rothschild (Feb 24)
- Re: Reasons why BIND isn't being upgraded Greg A. Woods (Feb 24)
- Re: Reasons why BIND isn't being upgraded Paul A Vixie (Feb 24)
- Re: Reasons why BIND isn't being upgraded Christopher Ambler (Feb 24)
- RE: Reasons why BIND isn't being upgraded Jeff Workman (Feb 24)