ISC BIND 9.4.2-P2-W1 is now available

atomic at people.net.au atomic at people.net.au
Mon Sep 8 06:08:55 UTC 2008


Evan Hunt wrote:
>> The thing is we are on Bind 8.4.6, we really need to upgrade to a more 
>> up to date version. Anything in 9.x.x ?
>>     
>
> All versions of BIND9 prior to the recent security patches (that is, up to
> 9.3.5, 9.4.2, and 9.5.0) ran on Windows 2000, but they're wide open to
> Kaminsky attacks.  It would be inadvisable to use any of them for
> recursive DNS.
>
>   
In other words, we are safe to upgrade to BIND 9.5.0 on Windows 2000 as 
long as we do not use it as caching DNS server, correct?

Peter



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