BIND patches versions for older Fedoras

Matt Domsch Matt_Domsch at dell.com
Mon Jul 14 15:43:14 UTC 2008


On Fri, Jul 11, 2008 at 08:06:03AM -0400, Mark Haney wrote:
> I think we've all heard about the major vulnerability in DNS lately.  My 
> question is, how far back will the patched BIND versions go in Fedora? 
> My problem is this:  I have 2 systems that are DNS servers than cannot 
> be upgraded past FC6 because of the problem with mkinitrd that is 
> keeping my Qlogic FC driver from loading on boot.  Therefore, I'm stuck 
> until that gets resolved.  I can definitely build the patched version 
> from source if I must, but wanted to see if possibly someone is going to 
> build one for FC6 and make it available on one of the repos.

Fedora's build systems are disabled for Fedora 7 and earlier, so it
won't be released into the standard Fedora updates trees for F7 or
earlier.

I'm afraid you're on your own.

-- 
Matt Domsch
Linux Technology Strategist, Dell Office of the CTO
linux.dell.com & www.dell.com/linux




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