BIND 8.2.5 public release

[Nate Campi]

On Wed, Oct 03, 2001 at 01:20:34PM +0200, Jesper Dybdal wrote:
> 
> Mark_Andrews at isc.org wrote:
> 
> >
> >> > The recommended versions to use are BIND 9.2.0rc5 and BIND 9.1.3.  If
> >> > for whatever reason you must run BIND 8, use nothing earlier than
> >> > 8.2.5-REL
> >> 
> >> Why isn't 8.2.3-REL acceptable anymore?
> >
> >	I would have thought that that would have been self evident.
> >
> >	While not every bug has a security impact the just about
> >	all have a operational impact.  It would be remiss of us
> >	to recommend anything other than the best version that we
> >	could.
> 
> Correct.  But it seems to me that there is a large difference between "not
> recommending" and "not considering acceptable".

Yes, huge difference. Of course now I'm probably going to upgrade all my
8.2.3-REL servers because I have a strange feeling we're not being told
everything there is to be told here.
-- 
Nate Campi, UNIX Ops WiReD SF, Terra Lycos DNS, (415) 276-8678