Re: [atlarge-discuss] Serious Flaws Found in BIND Server Software

[Jeff Williams <jwkckid1@ix.netcom.com>]

Whomever you are and all stakeholders or other interested parties,

  Yes they do work for the USG.  Mr. Clark is the Internet security czar
appointed by the president, and Andrew Card, is the Sr. Advisor to the
President...

Yue You Fidget wrote:

> Hello Mr. Williams:
>
> I am sorry but I do have problems with understanding many things of American English.  Who are these people Richard Clark and Andrew Card?  Do they work for the government of U.S.?
>
> Thank You,
>
> F-W Fidget
>
> --- Jeff Williams <jwkckid1@ix.netcom.com> wrote:
> >Jefsey and all stakeholders or other interested parties and members,
> >
> >  Unfortunately again Jefsey you are again a bit behind the curve
> >in your comments/statements below to Sotiris's article notification.
> >First, Bind 9.3 is a base line only for recommended use.  As I and
> >a number of our [INEGroup] members have been working
> >with Richard Clark and Andrew Card on the cybersecurity
> >effort, a version of BindPlus is currently Preferred, and may
> >be required, despite the IETF's and ICANN's objections.
> >Those objections are that BindPlus is not open source
> >software even though neither ICANN or the IETF actually
> >produce any code...
> >
> >  Second as Sotiris's article rightly points out, older versions
> >of Bind (v4-v8) have had the proper patches applied or
> >available to be applied to fix the current known security holes
> >that exist.
> >
> >J-F C. (Jefsey) Morfin wrote:
> >
> >> Right now only djbdns and Bind 9.3 should be used. The mere fact that a
> >> large number of Bind 4 are still in use shows the difficulty to consider
> >> the Internet as a network. This is the real challenge of the White House
> >> Cyberspace Security team. And ours. jfc
> >>
> >> On 04:37 13/11/02, Sotiris Sotiropoulos said:
> >>
> >> >http://www.eweek.com/article2/0,3959,696200,00.asp
> >> >
> >> >"Security researchers have discovered several serious new
> >> >vulnerabilities in the BIND software that runs on the vast
> >> >majority of the Internet's DNS servers. The most serious
> >> >flaw, a buffer overrun in both BIND 4 and BIND 8, enables
> >> >an attacker to execute arbitrary code on a vulnerable
> >> >server.
> >> >
> >> >The Internet Software Consortium, which maintains the free
> >> >BIND (Berkeley Internet Name Domain) software, has
> >> >released patches for both affected versions. "
> >> >
> >> >
> >> >Sincerely,
> >> >
> >> >Sotiris Sotiropoulos
> >> >
> >> >
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> >Regards,
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> >Jeffrey A. Williams
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Jeffrey A. Williams
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