Re: DNS issues. BIND 8.2

Chris Wedgwood wrote:

If its a stack smashing attack, it might help. Mostly because the stack offsets are OS dependent and since only 9 people in the whole world (including Joe) run FreeBSD, probably nobody ever worked out an attack for it :)

We run FreeBSD. So who are the other 7? Clearly if the numbers running the OS is a guide to its robustness the relationship is inversely proportional. (:-) MS systems have a huge installed base, Linux has a large installed base, FreeBSD is less popular. -- Mailto:asjl(a)netlink.net.nz Post: Netlink, PO Box 5358, Lambton Quay, Wellington, New Zealand -- --------- To unsubscribe from nznog, send email to majordomo(a)list.waikato.ac.nz where the body of your message reads: unsubscribe nznog