DNS Patch Causes BIND Blunder

Courtesy Linux Today  Tue, 07/29/2008 - 09:15

ZDNet: "The group responsible for maintaining the internet's most popular domain name software BIND has admitted it caused problems by fast-tracking a security patch designed to fix the widescale DNS flaw discovered by researcher Dan Kaminsky this month."


 

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