BIND: limiting recursion just might make things harder for spammers

Mon Nov 18 10:10:21 PST 2002

Quoting Mark Allen (mallen at byte-me.org):

> I wanted to note that OBSD's BIND had the same problem as the ISC
> "canonical" version. I just rebuilt BIND on our OBSD box from the stable 
> OpenBSD patch branch on Friday.

Yes, they warned, at the time of the advisory, that it was probably
true.  (They also said that the chrooting made it unlikely that the bug
could be exploited, though I'm not sure what the outcome of that was.)

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