Patch bind to pluig Kaminsky DNS vulnerability for FC7?

[Mike]

Les Mikesell <lesmikesell <at> gmail.com> writes:

> While you could probably patch every hole yourself with source builds or 
> rebuilding src rpms from newer fedora versions, you would be better off 
> not using Fedora if you can't or don't want to keep up with the upgrade 
> cycle, and fortunately there are distributions designed for that 
> situation.  RHEL5 would be very similar if you want a version with paid 
> support or CentOS5 if you don't.  Either will have several more years of 
> continuing update support.  They aren't even such a bad choice for 
> desktop use now that the updates have brought OpenOffice and Firefox up 
> to near-current releases (an unusual move - most updates are just 
> backported bug/security fixes).

Well all but one of the boxes under my control is more up to date but that
one is a laptop physically a long way from me and it will be a while before
I get a chance to have a day away to do the upgrade - I was just looking for
an interim measure....

Thanks anyway.