[cobalt-security] Re: [cobalt-users] FW: [ISN] [BUGTRAQ] Bug in Bind 9.1.0? (fwd)

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On Wed, 7 Feb 2001, Brandon Wheaton wrote:

> Might interest those of you actually installing the DNS upgrade 
> on your Cobalt product. Does the Cobalt upgrade use 8.2.3 or 9.1.0?

To 8.2.3, and that nmap command had no effect on it at all (raq2 with
current OS upgrades + new bind rpm)

9.1.x is unlikely to be stable anyhow, it has lots and lots of changes in
ccluding ipv6 support, there could be all kinds of reasons for it crashing
;0

> > I just tried nmap O -sT -p 53 on a Cobalt RAQ running Linux 
> > 2.0.34 for MIPS, stock out of the box RAQ rented from a colo 
> > vendor, with 9.1.0 compiled on that machine, and nameservice 

Who knows if he even compiled it right?

> > stopped responding.  I've only tested this on one RAQ, so it 
> > may be something about its config and not a general issue.
> > 
> > No flags - it was just ./configure, make, make install.  nmap
> > consistently halts named there.

A good way to miscompile on the raq2, autoconfig is broken...

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