ISC statement about BIND9's recent -P1 releases

[Ben Croswell]

I am not saying burn ISC at the stake by any stretch of the imagination, but
I think your comment about people not dying if a nameserver is down is a
little understating things.  Perhaps in your DNS environment servers
crashing and being unable to resolve is not a big deal, but I bet a lot of
the folks here who run DNS for large organizations would beg to differ.
-- 
-Ben Croswell

On Thu, Jul 31, 2008 at 7:08 AM, George R. Kasica <georgek at netwrx1.com>wrote:

> On Tue, 29 Jul 2008 13:21:15 -0700, Steve Lancaster
> <stevelan at cesa.opbu.xerox.com> wrote:
>
> >Well... while it's
> >
> ><
> http://www.zdnet.com.au/news/security/soa/DNS-patch-causes-BIND-blunder/0,1300
> >61744,339290928,00.htm>
> >
> >certainly "another view" on the same facts.. I find it a particularly
> >distasteful one...
> >
> Steve:
>
> I agree with you and others here, ISC has done a great job in short
> time.
>
> As one whose "other job" is as a flight RN on a helicopter (medical
> transport) lets put it this way....no one is dying cause your name
> servers are crashing...in this area you get one chance to fix a
> problem and if you guess wrong or hesitate too long someone may truly
> suffer due to is.....name server crashing is not that area for sure.
>
> I think everyone needs to take a nice deep breath, relax, ISC will
> come up with a fix soon, and for now if its crashing look into
> something like maybe psmon to keep an eye on it and kick it back in
> (at least in the *nix) world.
>
> Now if someone can tell me how to do the same restart in Windoze I'd
> be much appreciative, (Not my strong suit and I've got one box here
> with 9.5.p1 on it that dies at random.
>
> George
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