Just so you know that you are not alone. Heard that on a building site decades ago from a wise man responding to a frustrating moment... Enjoy:
I have been cutting this 4x4 so many times and it is still short! I am sure going to keep cutting it until it is the right size! -Tomas On Oct 2, 2017 12:25 PM, "Keith Lofstrom" <kei...@kl-ic.com> wrote: > On Mon, Oct 02, 2017 at 10:36:37AM -0700, Rich Shepard wrote: > > I think Mike C. was correct, that it's a DNS problem. > > Perhaps one or more root servers was corrupted or attacked. > > The bad guys may be exploiting the DNS flaw described below, > recently patched in the distro I'm currently upgrading. > > I bet the bad guys have tools for testing and probing DNS > server integrity. Why don't you and I have those tools? > We build ephemeral new capabilities without diagnostic and > monitoring tools for critical core capabilities. Then we > replace core capabilities ( systemd ), trading a heap of > old known bugs for a wilderness of new unknown bugs. > > I'm all for replacing rickety designs with clean ones, > but based on demonstrable metrics, not aesthetics, > after a shitstorm of bounty-driven white-hat attacks. > Sometimes there are empirical reasons for rickety. > > Measure twice, cut once. When softwave becomes real > engineering, perhaps we will learn how to do that. > > Keith > > ----------------------------------------------------------- > Synopsis: Critical: dnsmasq security update > Advisory ID: SLSA-2017:2838-1 > Issue Date: 2017-10-02 > CVE Numbers: CVE-2017-14491 > -- > Security Fix(es): > > * A heap buffer overflow was found in dnsmasq in the code responsible for > building DNS replies. An attacker could send crafted DNS packets to > dnsmasq which would cause it to crash or, potentially, execute arbitrary > code. (CVE-2017-14491) > -- > SL6 > x86_64 > dnsmasq-debuginfo-2.48-18.el6_9.x86_64.rpm > dnsmasq-2.48-18.el6_9.x86_64.rpm > dnsmasq-utils-2.48-18.el6_9.x86_64.rpm > i386 > dnsmasq-debuginfo-2.48-18.el6_9.i686.rpm > dnsmasq-2.48-18.el6_9.i686.rpm > dnsmasq-utils-2.48-18.el6_9.i686.rpm > > - Scientific Linux Development Team > ----------------------------------------------------------- > > -- > Keith Lofstrom kei...@keithl.com > _______________________________________________ > PLUG mailing list > PLUG@lists.pdxlinux.org > http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug > _______________________________________________ PLUG mailing list PLUG@lists.pdxlinux.org http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug
