Articles tagged with isc

1. BIND Users: Update Your Servers

   Posted on July 30, 2009 in Software

   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 …

2. BIND 9.4.2 Just For You!

   Posted on November 29, 2007 in Software

   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 …

3. BIND Startup in Mac OS X 10.4 (Tiger)

   Posted on June 05, 2007 in System Administration

   While doing further research for my OS X Caching Only Name Server series, it has come to my attention that a couple of my methods (specifically relating to Startup Items and starting the daemon) are outdated. Although these methods may have been acceptable in pre-Tiger versions of OS X, Mac …