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[Steven Leopardi]

On Wed, Feb 23, 2000 at 03:53:22PM +0800, navarre at omen.net.au wrote:
> My question is given that bind is not realy called bind, is it not 
> named?, the package is called bind? typing 
> 
> bind -V 
> 
> shows something to do with bash, am I correct.
> 
> I looked in /var/log/syslog and no mention of bind or named.
> 
> Please inform us debian users how to check the version and
> clear up my confusion about the name of this thing.

[root at sputnik:~]$dpkg -l bind
Desired=Unknown/Install/Remove/Purge
| Status=Not/Installed/Config-files/Unpacked/Failed-config/Half-installed
|/ Err?=(none)/Hold/Reinst-required/X=both-problems (Status,Err: uppercase=bad)
||/ Name            Version        Description
+++-===============-==============-============================================
ii  bind            8.1.2-5        An Internet domain name server

> 
> Regards Navarre
> 
> > 
> > > > (Question for some home users, new to Linux: are you
> > > > running a recent version of BIND with a remote root exploit?  You
> > might
> > > > be without having any idea that your you-beaut, user-friendly
> > > > distribution helpfully installed the DNS server software for you...)
> > 
> > On Wed, 23 Feb 2000, Bret Busby wrote:
> >  
> > > From a Linux user who probably has the level of knowledge mentioned,
> > > "Eh, wot?" 
> > 
> > 1. Are you running bind?
> > 2. What version are you running?
> > 
> >    (answers to both questions can be found with, iirc, "rpm -qv bind")
> > 
> > 3. If you are running bind 8.2.something and the version is less than
> >    8.2.2 you may be vulnerable to the first bug described in
> >    http://www.cert.org/advisories/CA-99-14-bind.html ("nxt bug")
> >    As a result somebody may already have root access to your machine.
> >    Go read the security information pages your linux vendor provides.
> >    (Debian's tells us it is not vulnerable to this bug)
> > 
> >  - Matt
> 

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