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From: Jerry A! <jerry@×××××××.org>
To: gentoo-dev@g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] Bind 8.2.3
Date: Thu, 15 Feb 2001 07:24:31
Message-Id: 20010215092405.A384@kabbu.akopia.com
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-dev] Bind 8.2.3 by 320095285153-0001@t-online.de (Achim Gottinger)
1 On Thu, Feb 15, 2001 at 02:51:46PM +0100, Achim Gottinger wrote:
2 : "Jerry A!" wrote:
3 :
4 : > Due to the announced security expliots in bind, I upgraded the v9
5 : > package in the CVS tree to 9.1.0. I planned on upgrading the v8 package
6 : > to 8.2.3. However, I wasn't able to get it to compile on my system.
7 : > I'm not suprised because more than likely I've gotten it dirty with all
8 : > the stuff I've been working on lately.
9 : >
10 :
11 : This is a glibc-2.2 related problem which we did not fix yet.
12 : If someone really need bind 8 we can look deeper into it.
13
14 Well, I'm hoping that we can fix it. I'd prefer to pull the insecure
15 versions out of the tree. Hate for us to be the distro that ships
16 software w/known security holes. 8)
17
18 --Jerry
19
20 name: Jerry Alexandratos || Open-Source software isn't a
21 phone: 703.599.6023 || matter of life or death...
22 email: jerry@×××××××.org || ...It's much more important
23 || than that!

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Re: [gentoo-dev] Bind 8.2.3 320095285153-0001@t-online.de (Achim Gottinger)