ISC BIND 9.4.2-P2-W1 is now available
Danny Mayer
mayer at gis.net
Mon Sep 8 11:43:05 UTC 2008
atomic at people.net.au wrote:
> 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
No. Only the -P2-W1 versions are safe and they do not run on Windows 2000.
Danny
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