OT-Related to the DNS stuff

Steve Campbell campbell at cnpapers.com
Mon Jul 14 16:26:54 IST 2008



Rick Cooper wrote:
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>  > Subject: RE: OT-Related to the DNS stuff
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>  > >I'm running an old RH 7.3 server for Bind. It's scheduled 
>  > to be taken 
>  > >out of commission at the beginning of September. Can anyone 
>  > provide a 
>  > >link to rpms for Bind, Bind-utils, and Bind-devel?
>  > 
>  > http://www.redhat.com/security/updates/eol/
>  > 
>  > Looks like RH 7.3 is long since dead and buried Steve - the 
>  > last security bugfix
>  > for it was waaaay back in Jan '04. Unless anyone can suggest 
>  > a repo still
>  > supporting it (there surely can't be any?!?!) then either 
>  > you're going to have
>  > to build your own RPM, compile from source, upgrade now, or 
>  > live with the
>  > un-patched version. Surely a machine this old is still 
>  > running BIND 8? *shudder*
>  > 
>  > 
>  > --
> Dag still builds for 7.3 and you can get packages from rpm.pbone.net but
> bind 9.3.2-10 is the latest bind available from either for rh 7.3
> But there are many, many current packages (for instance
> clamav-0-0.93.3-1.rh7.rf). There are a lot that are not such as openssl
> (latest from dag is 0.9.7i-2) which has to be build from source. But Dag and
> FreshRpms (3) still maintain 7.3 repositories for yum.
>
> Rick
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>   
Rick,

I'm still looking for something to install. I was already running the 
latest that pbone has and Dag is usually a good go-too, but not this time.

Thanks though for the time.

Steve



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