Re: [gentoo-dev] Bind 8.2.3

"Jerry A!" wrote:

> On Thu, Feb 15, 2001 at 03:22:36PM +0100, Achim Gottinger wrote:
> : "Jerry A!" wrote:
> :
> : > Well, I'm hoping that we can fix it.  I'd prefer to pull the insecure
> : > versions out of the tree.  Hate for us to be the distro that ships
> : > software w/known security holes.  8)
> :
> : We are still in a pre-productive phase right now, which should not mean we are
> : the most insecure distro on
> : planet earth. :-)
> : No version of bind 8 compiles on our current system (shame on us but no
> : security problems with 8 for us).
> : Is 9.1 really that much insecure? I took a look at the isc homepage and did not
> : find any security warnings for 9.1
> : but for 8.2.
> : I will take a closer look at bind 8.2.3 now. But I have already spend some
> : hours on it without succes during
> : the glibc-2.2 move.
>
> I'm sorry, I didn't make myself clear.  9.1 is secure, that's why I put
> it in the tree.  However, looking at net-misc/bind, all the insecure
> versions are still there.  I would like to move them to the Attic on the
> CVS tree.
>

Ok this can be done.

>
> Now, I know that some people still have a preference for bind8 which is
> why I was hoping that we could have a secure version of bind8 in the
> tree as well.

I think I got it a working package is in the cvs tree.

achim~

>
>
> Achim, if it doesn't work, it doesn't work.  I just wanted a second
> opinion and to make sure that it wasn't just me having problems with
> bind8.
>
>         --Jerry
>
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