Ancient BIND version?

[Joseph S D Yao]

On Tue, Apr 11, 2000 at 04:38:19PM -0400, Kevin Darcy wrote:
> 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*...

Anybody who didn't take advantage of the SunOS Y2K patches for SunOS
4.* now has a system where they can't set the date very far from the
current date.  ;-]  Those who did change have versions of Sendmail V8
... and BIND V4.  It's easy enough to install BIND V8, though, and
worth it.

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