RE: sorry to ruin several of your evenings...

[Roeland Meyer <rmeyer () mhsc com>]

> From: Paul Vixie [mailto:vixie () mfnx net]
> Sent: Saturday, January 27, 2001 9:55 PM

> asr () latency net (Adam Rothschild) writes:
>
> > Not to disrespect Mr. Vixie, or detract from the operational content
> > of the original post, but I'd like to recommend another solution to
> > these recently reported security holes in BIND: install djbdns
> > <http://www.djbdns.org/>.
>
> No disrespect taken.  The README for 8.2.3 says:
>
>       Note that BIND 8 is in "end-of-life", having been 
> replaced by BIND 9.
>       See http://www.isc.org/ for more details.
>
> And indeed, BIND 9 has been in preparation for several years, 
> has been in an
> extended test release phase for the last 6 or 8 months, and 
> with the release
> of 9.1.0 a few weeks ago, is a far better choice than BIND 
> 8.2.3 for most
> systems.  It's also compatible with BIND 8's configuration 
> file syntax.

Thank you Paul, the web-site wasn't clear on that. Therefor, I haven't even
looked at it much.