Patch bind to pluig Kaminsky DNS vulnerability for FC7?

[John Austin]

On Wed, 2008-07-30 at 21:08 +0000, Mike wrote:
> John Austin <ja <at> jaa.org.uk> writes:
> 
> > Please see below my notes to myself when doing the same for F5
> > Hope they help
> 
> Your notes were just spot on - I adapted and ran these steps on the FC7 box
> that needed the change and it worked fine. The main difference was that
> I had caching-nameserver running and that was a dependency that could not
> be fulfilled since that rpm went obsolete well before F9 - so I simply
> yum removed caching-nameserver, and then did yum localupdate --nogpgcheck
> on the list of newly created rpms.
> 
> Once completee I noted that /etc/sysconfig/named had changed so I replaced
> the old with the new one. Finally restarted named and it seems fine.
> 
> This basic technique may well be adaptable to other back ports for security 
> fixes in the future so I am particularly grateful for your help with this.
> 
> Thanks again.
> Mike
> 

Good news!

Thanks for the feedback

John