Ancient BIND version?

[G. Roderick Singleton]

Barry Margolin wrote:
> 
> In article <38F38785.E7755DAC at daimlerchrysler.com>,
> Kevin Darcy  <kcd at daimlerchrysler.com> wrote:
> >We appear to have a _bona_fide_ relic on our hands, friends. Maybe the
> >binary can be donated to the Smithsonian.
> 
> Hardly.  He's running the version of named that was bundled with SunOS 4.x,
> and even early Solaris 2.x releases.  I'll bet there are hundreds, maybe
> thousands, of sites on the Internet that haven't bothered to upgrade their
> servers beyond this.
> 
> Believe it or not, there are many places that don't upgrade systems that
> seem to be working OK.  They're probably also running the SunOS 4.x version
> of sendmail, I'll bet.
> 

There's no excuse for not patching. I took a quick look on sunsolve and
found the following:

Patch-ID# 106866-02
                  Keywords: security BIND denial query in.named crash
root
                  Synopsis: SunOS 4.1.4: in.named security fixes
                  Date: Dec/04/98

I may not be state-of-the-art but upgrades are available for SunOS4.x.

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