Re: how to get people to upgrade? (Re: The weak link? DNS)

[Niels Bakker <niels=nanog () bakker net>]

* vixie () vix com (Paul Vixie) [Wed 26 Mar 2003, 16:24 CET]:
> so here's a proposal.  we (speaking for ISC here) could add a config option
> (default to OFF) to make bind send some kind of registration packet at boot
> time, containing an e-mail address for a technical contact for that server,
> and perhaps its hostname as well.  the destination would be configurable, and
> the format would be open, and we would include in the distribution a tool
> capable of catching these.  any campus/WAN admin who wanted to run their own
> "BIND registration system" could do so.  anyone who wanted to simply config
> their server to send registration data to ISC could do so.  for data received
> at ISC, we'd (a) keep it completely private other than public statistics,
> (b) clean it of obvious trash (some people will sent registration data for
> president () whitehouse gov just for fun; we know that), and (c) use the contact
> information only in the event that a security defect discovered in that
> version.  remember, the default would be OFF.
>
> given such a feature, whose default was OFF, would anyone here who uses
> BIND stop using it out of protest?  if so plz answer publically (on nanog).

So how much would this differ from `make install' running this shell
script?

---
cat <<EOF
        Congratulations!  You have just successfully installed BIND
        ${VERSION}.  If you want to be kept up-to-date on future
        announcements on BIND (for example, security vulnerabilities
        found in your version), say Y here.  This is highly recommended!
EOF
        read answer
        case "$answer" in
          y|Y|[Yy][Ee][Ss])
                echo subscribe | mail bind-announce-request () isc org
                ;;
          *)
                echo "You can still see security updates at"
                echo "http://www.isc.org/products/bind/";
                echo "Please check there regularly!"
        esac
---


        -- Niels.

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