Ancient BIND version?

Kevin Darcy kcd at daimlerchrysler.com
Tue Apr 11 20:38:19 UTC 2000


Barry Margolin wrote:

> In article <38F38785.E7755DAC at daimlerchrysler.com>,
> Kevin Darcy  <kcd at daimlerchrysler.com> wrote:
> >We appear to have a _bona_fide_ relic on our hands, friends. Maybe the
> >binary can be donated to the Smithsonian.
>
> Hardly.  He's running the version of named that was bundled with SunOS 4.x,
> and even early Solaris 2.x releases.  I'll bet there are hundreds, maybe
> thousands, of sites on the Internet that haven't bothered to upgrade their
> servers beyond this.
>
> Believe it or not, there are many places that don't upgrade systems that
> seem to be working OK.  They're probably also running the SunOS 4.x version
> of sendmail, I'll bet.

Ah, the old "if it ain't broke, don't fix it" mentality. Funny, I haven't heard
that saying very much since the script kiddies started exploiting buffer overflow
problems in practically *everything*...


- Kevin





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