Watch it: Multiple DNS implementationsvulnerableto cachepoisoning

Jay R. Ashworth jra at baylink.com
Mon Jul 14 15:09:57 IST 2008


On Sat, Jul 12, 2008 at 06:40:29AM +0100, Anthony Cartmell wrote:
> We've been here before - Fedora is an excellent server OS for people like  
> me, running web servers requiring up-to-date packages. It may not be if  
> your situation means upgrading OS versions is expensive and you have no  
> need for recent software packages installed automatically.

In the world of Dependency Hell, where our apps depend on the versions
of other packages, in intricate pathways, running automatic updates on
servers is rarely a good idea, IME.

Cheers,
-- jra
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