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To: KoRn

This flaw was universal in DNS implementations. It affected both BIND and MS DNS servers. Updates were released before descriptions of the flaw for obvious reasons. I am of the opinion that there are no impenetrable systems in this world. Its simply a matter of difficulty and time. That includes the world’s best encyrption to.


10 posted on 08/07/2008 1:27:16 PM PDT by ChinaThreat (s)
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To: ChinaThreat
Actually, this was leaked last week sometime.
It made some of us jump pretty high to get the patches done anyway.
13 posted on 08/07/2008 1:31:06 PM PDT by KenD
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To: ChinaThreat
This flaw was universal in DNS implementations.

No. it isn't. DNBDNS has always been immune to this kind of stupid coding.

It affected both BIND and MS DNS servers.

That's because Microsoft's DNS implementation uses ISC's code.

I am of the opinion that there are no impenetrable systems in this world.

True. But some are better than others.

Dan Berenstein has had an offer open for 10 years of a $500 reward for anyone that could show a flaw in his QMail software.

That offer remains unclaimed.

He has an identical offer open for DJBDNS.

15 posted on 08/07/2008 1:36:05 PM PDT by Knitebane (Happily Microsoft free since 1999.)
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To: ChinaThreat
Keeping to this issue. Here's a quote on the DNS Flaw:

"So that works against pretty much everything in wide deployment

BIND8/9

MSDNS

Nominum (with some tweaks)

Doesn’t work against DJBDNS, PowerDNS, MaraDNS"<-there's more info on these somewhere, though.

16 posted on 08/07/2008 1:38:07 PM PDT by Freemeorkillme
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