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Re: BIND updates

From: Men & Mice Support
Date: Thursday, January 27, 2005
Time: 5:51:22 pm

At 8:15 PM -0500 1/27/05, John May wrote:
>What is DNSSEC? How do we turn it off when using QuickDNS?

If you don't know, then it's not turned on. It's off by default.
Sorry, should have mentioned this before.

>Is there any plan to update QuickDNS to install 9.3.1 once it's in
>final-release form?

I'm afraid I can't comment at this time.

Chris Buxton
Men & Mice - Making DNS Easy

>>Some problems have been discovered in recent versions of BIND.
>>
>>Problem 1: Versions 8.4.4 and 8.4.5 have a crashing vulnerability
>>involving recursion. If you're using an affected version, update to
>>BIND 8.4.6. More info:
>>http://www.niscc.gov.uk/niscc/docs/al-20050125-00059.html?lang=en
>>
>>Problem 2: Version 9.3.0 has a crashing vulnerability involving
>>DNSSEC validation. If you're using DNSSEC, either disable it or
>>update to BIND 9.3.1 (when it becomes available). More info:
>>http://www.niscc.gov.uk/niscc/docs/al-20050125-00060.html?lang=en
>>
>>Also note that the IPv6 problem involving Mac OS X has reportedly
>>been fixed in BIND 9.3.1b2 (without using the -4 switch), which is
>>currently available for those brave enough to use beta software.
>>
>>We've also created a general knowledge base article regarding BIND updates.
>>http://kbase.menandmice.com/otrs/faq.pl?ID=29
>>
>>Chris Buxton
>>Men & Mice - Making DNS Easy
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