Re: Vixie warns: DNS Changer ‘blackouts’ inevitable

[Ken Pfeil <ken () infosec101 org>]

Save the good scotch for lmhosts :)



On May 23, 2012, at 9:27 PM, George Herbert <george.herbert () gmail com> wrote:

> On Wed, May 23, 2012 at 5:42 PM,  <valdis.kletnieks () vt edu> wrote:
> > On Wed, 23 May 2012 13:09:09 -0700, Leo Bicknell said:
> >
> > >   "In 1988, while employed by DEC, he started working on the popular
> > >    internet domain name server BIND, of which he was the primary author and
> > >    architect, until release 8."
> > >
> > > ISC has spent some effort on properly documenting the history of
> > > BIND, and the result of that effort is located at:
> > >
> > > http://www.isc.org/software/bind/history
> > >
> > > You'll note there are two full paragraphs and a dozen folks involved
> > > before Paul had anything to do with BIND.
> >
> > One could make the case that the releases before Paul got there weren't
> > exactly popular - how many DNS servers were in production in 1986? ;)
>
> Please don't make me remember hosts.txt before I've had a chance to
> wrap up work, go home, and get some Scotch in...
>
>
> -- 
> -george william herbert
> george.herbert () gmail com