07-12-2008, 12:00 PM
Quote:The only solution is to update your DNS servers and to do it now. Almost all the major operating system vendors have already released patches for the problem.
For Linux servers in specific, that means you need to upgrade BIND. If youre still using BIND 8, or, God-forbid, any earlier versions, since these are hopelessly outdated, you should upgrade to BIND 9.
BIND 9 is years old but some ISPs and companies are still using it. Yahoo, believe it or not, according to Kaminsky, is still using BIND 8. There are several things that work in BIND 8, but which will fail in BIND 9...
full article: http://practical-tech.com/operating-syst...-in-linux/