BIND 8.3.1-REL is now available

[Arjen van Drie]

Hi,

can you plaese tell me why this is announced on bind-announce but not on
the ISC website nor on any other mailinglist I know of (like
bugtraq at securityfocus.com).

Thank you,

Arjen van Drie.




On Sun, 2002-02-03 at 03:30, Mark_Andrews at isc.org wrote:
> 
> 			BIND 8.3.1 Release
> 
> BIND 8.3.1 is the second release of 8.3 and contains no new features.
> 
> The recommended version to use is BIND 9.2.0.  If for whatever reason you
> must run BIND 8, use nothing earlier than 8.2.5-REL, 8.3.1-REL.  Do not
> under any circumstances run BIND 4.
> 
> Highlights vs. BIND 8.3.0:
> 
> 	Critical bug fix to prevent DNS storms. If you have BIND 8.3.0 you
> 	need to upgrade.
> 
> the distribution files are:
> 
> ftp://ftp.isc.org/isc/bind/src/8.3.1/bind-src.tar.gz
> ftp://ftp.isc.org/isc/bind/src/8.3.1/bind-doc.tar.gz
> ftp://ftp.isc.org/isc/bind/src/8.3.1/bind-contrib.tar.gz
> 
> the pgp signature files are:
> 
> ftp://ftp.isc.org/isc/bind/src/8.3.1/bind-src.tar.gz.asc
> ftp://ftp.isc.org/isc/bind/src/8.3.1/bind-doc.tar.gz.asc
> ftp://ftp.isc.org/isc/bind/src/8.3.1/bind-contrib.tar.gz.asc
> 
> the md5 checksums are:
> 
> MD5 (bind-contrib.tar.gz) = c2d854ec5bb166ca454b807f357018a7
> MD5 (bind-contrib.tar.gz.asc) = 08adf8c871b4d9e8d361200dfbc052d1
> MD5 (bind-doc.tar.gz) = 54c63ec52daf69d52668299ada2dac68
> MD5 (bind-doc.tar.gz.asc) = f14984df5886d313bc6a6177f9e0f414
> MD5 (bind-src.tar.gz) = ee0535239e3b254e98d7efe53f4d0fe7
> MD5 (bind-src.tar.gz.asc) = 9645c31c59e3891e5219c2635c2f58e2
> 
> Windows NT / Windows 2000 binary distribution.
> 
> ftp://ftp.isc.org/isc/bind/contrib/ntbind-8.3.1/readme1st.txt
> ftp://ftp.isc.org/isc/bind/contrib/ntbind-8.3.1/BIND8.3.1.zip
> ftp://ftp.isc.org/isc/bind/contrib/ntbind-8.3.1/BIND8.3.1.zip.asc
> 
> ftp://ftp.isc.org/isc/bind/contrib/ntbind-8.3.1/readme1sttools.txt
> ftp://ftp.isc.org/isc/bind/contrib/ntbind-8.3.1/BIND8.3.1Tools.zip
> ftp://ftp.isc.org/isc/bind/contrib/ntbind-8.3.1/BIND8.3.1Tools.zip.asc
> 
> top of CHANGES says:
> 
>         --- 8.3.1-REL released --- (Thu Jan 31 21:28:59 PST 2002)
> 
> 1332.	[func]		"allow-query" is now supported for forward zones.
> 			#define FORWARD_ALLOWS in bin/named/named.h to enable.
> 
> 1331.	[bug]		rrsetadd() should explictly attach to the databuf
> 			rather than inheriting the reference count.
> 
> 1330.	[bug]		potential reference after free.
> 
> 1329.	[port]		linux: ensure that CC is correctly propgated to
> 			probe_ipv6.
> 
> 1328.	[port]		linux: res_init.c failed to compile on certian older
> 			machines.
> 
> 1327.	[contrib]	add mysqlBind reference.
> 
> 1326.	[bug]		named-xfer could incorrectly report a fopen() failure
> 			as a fdopen() failure.
> 
> 1325.	[bug]		if fdopen() failed empty files could be left behind.
> 
> 1324.	[bug]		certian bad delegations could result in a DNS storm.
> 
> 1323.   [bug]           cached NXDOMAIN/NODATA responses were being ignored
> 			when when fetching missing additional data.
> 
> 
> 	--- 8.3.0-REL released --- (Fri Jan 11 04:00:00 PST 2002)
> 
>