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Re: QuickDNS 4.5.1.1 and delegation-only zones

From: Men & Mice Support
Date: Thursday, September 25, 2003
Time: 8:30:51 pm

If you don't upgrade your Bind and QuickDNS versions, all that
happens is, you can't stop Verisign's SiteFinder "service". It
doesn't expose you to any other problems.
____________________________________________________________________
Chris Buxton Men & Mice
Customer Support Specialist Making DNS Easy

At 9:00 PM -0400 9/25/03, John May wrote:
>Any thoughts on this? Eg: is there any problem NOT patching BIND to
>defeat the wildcard records? Eg: Do I really need to worry about
>upgrading to 4.5.1.1 from 4.0??
>
> - John
>
>>OK, so is there any problem not patching BIND to defeat the wildcard records?
>>
>>We've still got our secondary on 10.1, which means we'd need to do
>>more than just simply upgrade to QuickDNS 4.5 since it doesn't run
>>on 10.1.
>>
>> - John
>>
>>>No, we're not planning to update version 4.0.
>>>____________________________________________________________________
>>>Chris Buxton Men & Mice
>>>Customer Support Specialist Making DNS Easy
>>>
>>>At 1:09 PM -0400 9/25/03, John May wrote:
>>>>Is there any way to patch 4.0 for this same fix? We haven't seen
>>>>enough advantage in 4.5 to upgrade to it yet.
>>>>
>>>> - John
>>>>
>>>>>QuickDNS Remote 4.5.1.1 has been made available for Bind-based
>>>>>servers. It provides compatibility with the new feature designed
>>>>>to defeat wildcard records in TLD zones such as Verisign's
>>>>>SiteFinder "service".
>>>>>
>>>>>Details are available here:
>>>>><http://kbase.menandmice.com/view.html?rec=37>
>>>>>____________________________________________________________________
>>>>>Chris Buxton Men & Mice
>>>>>Customer Support Specialist Making DNS Easy
>
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