[dns-operations] FYI-- Paul Vixie: ISC statement about BIND9's recent -P1 releases

Florian Weimer fw at deneb.enyo.de
Mon Jul 28 20:18:17 UTC 2008


* Sebastian Castro Avila:

> Just for the record and impersonating Mauricio Vergara from NIC Chile,
> we've been urging local ISP to upgrade their resolvers and one of the
> biggest reported to us the same issue. They upgraded and the resolver
> stopped to work due to the load, so they continued with the vulnerable
> but working code.

On the other hand, at Debian, we haven't received a single bug report
that the security update caused failures.  Recently, I extracted a
confession from an unwilling user that there were indeed problems, but
for the huge majority of users, the available updates (even the -P1
ones) are fine.



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