DNS Cache Snooping?

Adam Tkac atkac at redhat.com
Tue Jun 24 21:20:05 UTC 2008


On Tue, Jun 24, 2008 at 05:19:21PM +0000, Paul Vixie wrote:
> "Jeff Lightner" <jlightner at water.com> writes:
> 
> > I'm running RHEL5 and am using the canned bind-chroot they provide.  Is
> > it possible they compiled in such a way that they excluded
> > allow-query-cache as an option altogether?
> 
> you will probably need to download the latest version of BIND and install
> it from sources.  redhat should ideally offer an RPM that will do that for
> you, voiding your support only on this one element of their enterprise
> system, but i think you're on your own.
> -- 
> Paul Vixie
> 

allow-query-cache was introduced in 9.4 series. When RHEL5 was
released 9.4 version was in beta stage so it was impossible put it
there. Now it is no way to put 9.4 into RHEL5 because it could break
existing configurations.



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