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                            This is getting annoying
                                        
“So, do you want the bad news, or the really bad news?” said Rob. [1] I had
just sitten down to each lunch too! 

“Um, how about the really bad news?” I said. 

“Good thing you're sitting down,” he said. “The DNS (Domain Name System)
resolver libraries everybody uses has an exploit and it affects a lot of
systems.” 

Rob was notifed of the most recent vulnerability [2] just released and yes,
it does affect a lot of systems. So this is what? The third major exploit [3]
in a week for Unix? 

I'm now off to spend a few hours tracking this down and fixing it … 

[1] http://www.tragic-smurfs.com/
[2] http://www.kb.cert.org/vuls/id/803539
[3] gopher://gopher.conman.org/0Phlog:2002/06/25.1

Email Sean Conner at sean@conman.org

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