Bind in FreeBSD, security advisories

Mark Felder feld at FreeBSD.org
Wed Jul 31 12:44:47 UTC 2013


On Wed, Jul 31, 2013, at 7:37, Erwin Lansing wrote:
> 
> 3rd party, and especially those that are still being distributed as
> experimental, will not be part of the base BIND code.  It will only
> contain a direct import from the vendor sources.
> 

I agree, experimental patches have no place in base. If this hits BIND
9.9 though I'd never even consider running BIND from base as an
authoritative server as it's missing this patch which can at least
partially mitigate a DoS.


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