Understood.  That's not very painful at all - I assume any new version of
bind9 will work then.

Is there a reason this workaround couldn't be added to the
freebsd-security advisory ?  Currently it states there is no workaround,
and this is a very nice one...

Also, you meant resolv.conf, right ? (not resolver.conf ?)

--pt

On Tue, 16 Jul 2002, Julian Elischer wrote:

> a real workaround means:
>
> setting resolver.conf to point to 127.0.0.1
> running a local copy of bind-9 as a forwarding server.
> bind-9 rebuilds requests and answers it forwards..
> bind-8 just passes them through.
>
>
> On Tue, 16 Jul 2002, Patrick Thomas wrote:
>
> >
> > I am under the impression that at this time there is no workaround for the
> > resolver problem - you are forced to reinstall or upgrade.
> >
> > I am curious though, is it at least conceptually possible that there could
> > be a workaround ?  If so, what would it entail ?
> >
> > thanks - pt
> >
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