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    In an e-mail to CNET News, Mogull said "Apple may be stuck between a rock and a hard place on this one, but they've chosen the worst possible option--remaining silent." He went on to say that we don't know how the BIND instability affects the Mac OS X Server. Full Article at Malaysia Sun
    Apple may be stuck between a rock and a hard place on this one, but they've chosen the worst possible option--remaining silent.
    SOURCE: Malaysia Sun 16 months ago
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Apple in a bind over its DNS patch
  1. DNS Patches cause problems ...
    SOURCE: Malaysia Sun 16 months ago
  2. Apple uses the popular Internet Systems Consortium BIND DNS server which was one of the first tools patched, but Apple has yet to include the fixed version in Mac OS X Server, despite being notified of vulnerability details early in the process and being informed of the coordinated patch release date.
    SOURCE: Malaysia Sun 16 months ago
  3. during the development cycle we became aware of a potential performance issue on high-traffic recursive servers, defined as those seeing a query volume of greater than 10,000/queries per second. Given the limited time frame and associated risks we chose to finish the patches ASAP and accelerate our work...
    SOURCE: Malaysia Sun 16 months ago
  4. Apple had no comment to a request from CNET News regarding the status of a Mac OS X DNS patch.
    SOURCE: Malaysia Sun 16 months ago
  5. reconfigure those servers to forward DNS requests to alternative platforms, such as BIND on Linux or Unix, or Microsoft servers, until Apple issues a patch.
    SOURCE: Malaysia Sun 16 months ago
  6. If it were unstable, my recommendation would be to make a preliminary patch available that those using it as a recursive DNS server can apply. With an active exploit, no patch at all is not a viable option and places customers at high risk. Let the customers make their own risk decision.
    SOURCE: Malaysia Sun 16 months ago

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