Thanks Shanu, that was really helpful (made me comfortable).
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From: Shanker <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Monday, March 27, 2000 11:44 PM
Subject: Re: [LIH] DNS for Dial-up
>
> I got in touch with Atul and this is what he had to say on Bind -
>
> <SNIP>
> Eeep! I hope you haven't left people with the wrong impression!
>
> Bind in 6.1 is not broken. The way RH sets up your hosts file is
> broken
> (refer my FAQ), and it confuses my pcqupdt script.
>
> Note, however, that bind in RHL 6.0 is *insecure* and is a major
> security
> hole. It was because of holes like these that we never put out an RHL
> 6.0
> CD - as far as I remember, RH released three new versions of bind
> before
> they got it right, and just after that released RHL 6.1.
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