please review Bv9ARM-book changes for integrating AusCERT AL-1999.004

Danny Mayer mayer at gis.net
Mon Apr 30 03:25:49 UTC 2007


> *** TODO: check this: A C source code patch must be applied 
> to all BIND 8.2.1 servers for the configuration 
> presented in this section to operate correctly. This 
> unsupported patch to BIND version 8.2.1 prevents BIND 
> returning REFUSED when it should be returning a 
> referral to a child zone.
> 
> This patch is available from:
> 
> ftp://ftp.auscert.org.au/pub/auscert/advisory/AL-1999.004.patch
> 
> *** not available ***
> 
> ???: is this integrated yet??? 

You surely aren't going to recommend that any use BIND 8.2.1? It must be
at least 8-9 years old and there are so many security issues that you
really shouldn't recommend anything less than 9.3.x and preferably 9.4.0.

Danny



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