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ISC is urging BIND users to upgrade their production DNS servers immediately. ISC recently announced a patch to fix an exploit in BIND. This exploit is in the wild and has been used to crash BIND servers resulting in a denial of service. Using a specially crafted dynamic update packet …
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After almost a year of development, the Internet Software Consortium (ISC) announced the newest release of their Domain Name System (DNS) server, BIND 9.4.3, today. This release includes over 140 fixes over BIND 9.4.2.
Although this maintenance release is mainly focused on bug fixes, it does …
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A few days ago, while reloading DNS on a server, I noticed an issue in the log:
Jul 31 11:29:50 admin named[6098]: the working directory is not writable
First, let's talk about how this error was caught. When doing various tasks, I often tail the log to …
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In case you missed it, Internet Systems Consortium (ISC) released version 9.4.2 of their BIND DNS server yesterday. It is recommended that all you BIND DNS operators out there upgrade your software, as BIND 9.4.2 over 90 fixes! Here's a graphical representation of the types of …
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Internet Systems Consortium, Inc., makers of the popular BIND <acronym title="Domain Name Service">DNS</acronym> server and INN Usenet server, has announced the End of Life for BIND 8 . I received an email from ISC on this topic earlier in the month, but I wasn't aware that the <acronym …
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You may run into a case where you are running a name server (perhaps a caching-only name server) that is not allowed to communicate with Internet name servers. The most common case for this is a local caching name server being blocked by a corporate or <acronym title="Internet Service …
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This information is really geared for pre-Tiger versions of OS X. In OS X 10.4 (Tiger), the BIND daemon is controlled by launchd and is pre-configured (although disabled). BIND Startup in Mac OS X 10.4 (Tiger) has more detailed information. Although outdated, this article still includes useful information …
