RE: Lion Worm

2001-03-24 Thread Peter Good
have been a server error which caused the 404 file not found. Peter. -Original Message- From: Tony Crawford [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Saturday, March 24, 2001 11:48 PM To: debian-user@lists.debian.org Subject: Re: Lion Worm Glenn Becker wrote (on 23 Mar 2001, at 22:14): > &g

Re: Lion Worm

2001-03-24 Thread Tony Crawford
Glenn Becker wrote (on 23 Mar 2001, at 22:14): > > OK, I've tried adding this line via dselect *and* direct editing of the > source.list file ... and I get '404 file not found's for the security > stuff. What could I be doing wrong? ... > > Not if you hsve put > > > > deb http://security.debi

Re: Lion Worm

2001-03-23 Thread Joey Hess
John Hasler wrote: > Shawn Yarbrough writes: > > Why did I have to do this at all? Wouldn't it make sense to have > > security.debian.org in the sources.list file by default? > > It would. And it fact, it is done by current versions of apt-setup in stable. Just not those released with r0 -- se

Re: Lion Worm

2001-03-23 Thread John Hasler
Shawn Yarbrough writes: > Why did I have to do this at all? Wouldn't it make sense to have > security.debian.org in the sources.list file by default? It would. > At the very least I think there is a user education problem here. Yes. -- John Hasler [EMAIL PROTECTED] (John Hasler) Dancing Horse

Re: Lion Worm

2001-03-23 Thread Bob Nielsen
If you check the "bind worm" thread, you will see that an updated version of bind is at security.debian.org. There other important security fixes there as well. IMHO, all potato users should add the following to there /etc/apt/sources.list: deb http://security.debian.org/ potato/updates main cont

Re: Lion Worm

2001-03-23 Thread Shawn Yarbrough
Thanks. This worked great. It upgraded my BIND to version 8.2.3-0.potato and also upgraded a bunch of other important-looking packages. Version 8.2.3 seems to be immune to the Lion Worm so I feel better now. I did a 'dselect', Update, Select, Install instead of the 'apt-get update; apt-get upg

Re: Lion Worm

2001-03-23 Thread Glenn Becker
Sorry, in my concern about this recent worm, I wrote too hastily. I just discovered through a search of the security mailing list archive that security updates are for stable *only*, and I'm running a testing box. Best, Glenn Becker Online Producer, Community SCIFI.COM At 10:14pm on Fri, 23 Ma

Re: Lion Worm

2001-03-23 Thread Glenn Becker
OK, I've tried adding this line via dselect *and* direct editing of the source.list file ... and I get '404 file not found's for the security stuff. What could I be doing wrong? I've fiddled with the security listing several times but still can't get past the 404 upon apt-get update ... Glenn Be

Re: Lion Worm

2001-03-23 Thread John Hasler
Shawn Yarbrough writes: > Can anybody tell me if Debian's BIND is in danger from the Lion Worm? Not if you hsve put deb http://security.debian.org/ potato/updates main contrib non-free in your /etc/apt/sources.list and done apt-get update; apt-get upgrade recently. -- John Hasler [EMAIL