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RE: Does blocking TCP DNS packets keep your Bind safe?
From: agetchel () kde state ky us
Date: Mon, 19 Mar 2001 15:23:13 -0500
Also re: BIND vulnerabilities, let's not forget that they are also going to be afflicted with the "popularity handicap" which is to say, since there are probably 100x more servers out there in the world running BIND, the likelihood of seeing or finding bugs on the platform, and the level of interest for people to design exploits are both going to be way higher than for a relatively scarce product like djbdns.
But because there is probably 100x more servers running BIND out there in the wild than any other DNS server software, this also means that exploits will be fixed much faster and problems will be brought to the public's eye much more quickly as well. It's a tradeoff really. You know, kind of like Microsoft and bug fixes... oh wait... sorry... bad example. =) Thanks, Abe Abe L. Getchell - Security Engineer Division of System Support Services Kentucky Department of Education Voice 502-564-2020x225 E-mail agetchel () kde state ky us Web http://www.kde.state.ky.us/ _______________________________________________ firewall-wizards mailing list firewall-wizards () nfr com http://www.nfr.com/mailman/listinfo/firewall-wizards
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