BIND holes mean big trouble

BIND holes mean big trouble
Kevin Poulsen, SecurityFocus 2001-01-29

Newly discovered vulnerabilities threaten the Internet's infrastructure.

There are alternatives to BIND 2001-01-29
Arttu Karpinlehto

Those who are considered about security holes in BIND might want to look at alternatives. One such alternative is djbdns. I'm not going to repeat all the information that is on the website http://cr.yp.to/djbdns.html but will mention that it comes with a security guarantee.

Djbdns is not a drop...

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Just a thought... 2001-01-30
Anonymous (1 replies)

At first, I saw nothing good about the media overreacting to a root hole in BIND. Granted, it is a serious issue, but how many root holes has there been in BIND now? But since everyone is doing coverage on this new hole, it seems that many maintainers have been getting out patches for their OS's B...

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Just a thought... 2001-01-31
Micheal J. Lawler

Speeking of WinNT or Windows 2000, does this hole include

Windows 2000 server or NT ?

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Oh, I thought only MS OS's are vulnerable to hack attacks? 2001-01-31
Phil (2 replies)

At least that is the garbage that I hear whenever a new virus is created (by a unix or mac nut) that attacks Windows users!...

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Re: Oh, I thought only MS OS's are vulnerable to hack attacks? 2001-01-31
Bill

Phil, think about what you just said. You are comparing virus attacks with intrusion attempts. This is fairly dumb. Microsoft OS's are way more vulnerable to viruses. All OS's are vulnerable to intrusion attempts, with Microsoft OS's simply taking a leading role in security holes.

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Re: MS OS 2001-01-31
Dave

I agree. We shouldn't talk about all the security issues there are in Microsoft software, instead we should immediately jump on *nix software when something goes wrong. Do you even understand what your saying?...

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