DNS

Brad Knowles brad.knowles at skynet.be
Mon Apr 2 12:45:17 UTC 2001


At 1:31 PM +0100 4/2/01, Jim Reid wrote:

>  There are no known security flaws in BIND8.2.3. This of course doesn't
>  mean that there aren't any. :-) AFAIK the plan is that another BIND8
>  release will be made some day. The main feature of that will be an
>  IPv6 capability in the resolver: ie resolv.conf can have an IPv6
>  address in RFC2372 notation after a nameserver directive. After that
>  release BIND8 will be at the end of the road, apart from security fixes.

	My apologies.  I was under the impression that BIND 8.2.3 was 
already the end-of-the-line for BIND 8, save major security fixes, 
etc....

	Thanks for clearing this up!

-- 
Brad Knowles, <brad.knowles at skynet.be>

/*        efdtt.c  Author:  Charles M. Hannum <root at ihack.net>          */
/*       Represented as 1045 digit prime number by Phil Carmody         */
/*     Prime as DNS cname chain by Roy Arends and Walter Belgers        */
/*                                                                      */
/*     Usage is:  cat title-key scrambled.vob | efdtt >clear.vob        */
/*   where title-key = "153 2 8 105 225" or other similar 5-byte key    */

dig decss.friet.org|perl -ne'if(/^x/){s/[x.]//g;print pack(H124,$_)}'


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