On 12/23/11 5:54 PM, Bas Smeelen wrote: >> Look, just a rant here. > > >> Who in *HELL* thought it would be a cool idea to release no less than >> FOUR security advisories today ? > What's the impact for your boxes? >
Only the BIND exploit concerns me, means that *potentially* servers for my projects might be unable to run DNS resolution anymore -> prod problems. I don't think we'll be getting trouble though so I'm postponing the update until next week. >> I mean, couldn't this have waited and remained undisclosed until monday ? > Best time to exploit is Christmas/holidays > >> I for one do *NOT* relish the idea of updating 50+ boxes this evening >> and tomorrow ! > updating 30 boxes right now > >> Not to mention a whole lot of merchants and banks have toggled IT Freeze >> a few weeks ago, to ensure xmas shopping doesn't get disturbed by >> production changes. > > >> Seriously, this is just irritating. > If you don't use telnet, ftpd, dns, pam, then it's not a big problem > > merry Christmas > > Disclaimer: http://www.ose.nl/email > _______________________________________________ freebsd-stable@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-stable To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-stable-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"
