HA: RE: BIND 9 windows XP builds

2017-04-18 Thread i . chudov
Hello all. Regarding the "critical mass": I'm the one who downloads BIND from XP box and I do it just to set it up on internal Linux machine. The reason to use XP as PC OS is company's policy and lack of money after all. :) P. S.: I can not imagine any user of BIND to even try to run it from

Re: BIND 9 windows XP builds

2017-04-18 Thread Mark Andrews
In message <20170418194105.06929a69@ime1.iment.local>, Paul Kosinski writes: > I would think that a Internet-connected box that is severely > compromised (e.g., has malware running with maximal privileges) is > about as bad as having the LAN that the box is on connected to the > Internet directly

Re: BIND 9 windows XP builds

2017-04-18 Thread Paul Kosinski
I would think that a Internet-connected box that is severely compromised (e.g., has malware running with maximal privileges) is about as bad as having the LAN that the box is on connected to the Internet directly (without a Firewall etc.). In particular, such a box could be remote controlled to

RE: BIND 9 windows XP builds

2017-04-18 Thread Browne, Stuart
Which we can assume is the reason Evan raised the question in the first place. Stuart -Original Message- From: bind-users [mailto:bind-users-boun...@lists.isc.org] On Behalf Of Darcy Kevin (FCA) Sent: Wednesday, 19 April 2017 8:59 AM To: bind-users@lists.isc.org Subject: RE: BIND 9

RE: BIND 9 windows XP builds

2017-04-18 Thread Darcy Kevin (FCA)
I guess I'm not so worried about a non-Internet-connected Windows XP box forwarding to an Internet-connected box that's running a modern (preferably non-Windows) OS. Assuming that the BIND versions are patched up to date, of course. To be sure, all things must come to end, and XP support for

Re: BIND 9 windows XP builds

2017-04-18 Thread Paul Kosinski
Yes, I suppose not every machine running BIND is connected to the Internet. But how many are network inaccessible to every machine that *is* connected to the Internet and might be compromised? We run a local BIND for our LAN to avoid HOSTS files, but that same machine is connected to the Internet

Re: BIND 9 windows XP builds

2017-04-18 Thread Reindl Harald
Am 18.04.2017 um 19:22 schrieb Darcy Kevin (FCA): Unspoken and false assumption: that every machine running BIND is connected to the Internet. I'm no fan of old, broken Microsoft OSes (or even the newer ones, for that matter), but let's be clear here: BIND is for anyone who doesn't want to

RE: BIND 9 windows XP builds

2017-04-18 Thread Darcy Kevin (FCA)
Unspoken and false assumption: that every machine running BIND is connected to the Internet. I'm no fan of old, broken Microsoft OSes (or even the newer ones, for that matter), but let's be clear here: BIND is for anyone who doesn't want to maintain a "hosts" file. "Connected to the Internet"

Re: [E] Re: BIND 9 windows XP builds

2017-04-18 Thread Reindl Harald
no, microsoft is *not* repsonsible for fools which connect a 15 years old, long unsupported OS version to a network. responsible are the people who are running that machines from hell and vendors which provide updates for software running on them which appears for users that there is some

RE: [E] Re: BIND 9 windows XP builds

2017-04-18 Thread David Erickson via bind-users
One could argue the problem is Microsoft in general. Problem is people don't take security seriously cause they don't think they could ever get compromised or hacked. And then most of the ones who have already been compromised just ignore the symptoms thinking their old end of life system is

Re: BIND 9 windows XP builds

2017-04-18 Thread G.W. Haywood
Hi there, On Tue, 18 Apr 2017, Evan Hunt wrote: ... I wanted to find out whether there's a reason for so many people to still be doing this -- even if it wasn't a very good reason -- before I cut them off. Personally I'm more than a bit surprised, and even a little offended that ISC still