ISC statement about BIND9's recent -P1 releases

Paul Vixie vixie at isc.org
Tue Jul 29 23:10:20 UTC 2008


> > ISC began work on the -P1 patches immediately upon being made aware of
> > the Kaminsky vulnerability.  Our immediate goal was to make patches
> > publicly available as soon as possible.  During the development cycle we
> > became aware of a potential performance issue
> 
> A very different way of presenting the same facts:
> 
> http://www.zdnet.com.au/news/security/soa/DNS-patch-causes-BIND-blunder/0,130061744,339290928,00.htm

i think their way of describing these events will sell more newspapers
than my way of describing these events, and they're not expecting me to
blame them for that difference, and in fact, i'm too busy to much care.

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