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  From: Nick Morrison <nickm@bhwb.nsw.gov.au>
  To  : LinuxSA <linuxsa@linuxsa.org.au>
  Date: Tue, 30 Jan 2001 16:54:17 +1030

Re: uh oh! -- BIND's no good again - warning, warning

It was Tue, Jan 30, 2001 at 03:05:02PM +1030.  David Lloyd spake:
> 
> It is serious. Name servers and mail servers tend to be open to the
> world and are always targets for exploits.
> 
> <sigh>
> 
> It means more upgrade work for me :-)


Because I really care, I'm going to give everyone the exact, simple command
line that will work in 99% of RedHat 6.2 installations to fix this problem.

[as root]

# rpm -Uvh ftp://mirror.aarnet.edu.au/redhat/updates/6.2/i386/bind-8.2.3-0.6.x.i386.rpm

I'm not sure if you need to restart named or not..  just in case, I typed:

# /etc/rc.d/init.d/named restart

Everyone should do this ASAP, especially if they're in an educational
institution ;)  The bug is a *bad* one.

Any extra pointers/etc from anyone else appreciated.  Other Linux-based
os's may vary.  E&OE.  Read at your own risk.  No responsibility taken.
&c.

Cheers,

Nick


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