Re: Is my old RedHat computer doomed?

On Sat, 26 Jul 2008 10:11:22 +0000 (UTC)
Kevin Buzzard <buzzard@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

But now I am a bit concerned that it probably *is*
broke, and quite seriously broke, because of the recent DNS resolving
issue thing and reports yesterday that good sploits are now
circulating in the wild.

http://cr.yp.to/djbdns/ is your friend.

Lightweight replacements for the components affected. From the man who
pointed out the current DNS bug as far back as 2001, and wrote the only
software that hasn't had to be patched recently.

--
Nick Kew

Application Development with Apache - the Apache Modules Book
http://www.apachetutor.org/
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