Re: [CentOS] current bind version

2011-02-24 Thread Tom H
On Wed, Feb 23, 2011 at 10:45 PM, Ross Walker rswwal...@gmail.com wrote: Let's face it most auditors these days are just accountants with Infosys Mgmt text books. Or former sysadmins who didn't make it in the management track but still wanted to be able to lord it over others...

Re: [CentOS] current bind version

2011-02-24 Thread Karanbir Singh
On 02/24/2011 02:24 AM, Nico Kadel-Garcia wrote: I have had an enquiry from the Network and Security guy. He wants to know why CentOS 5.5 /RHEL 5 is using a very old version of bind The bind97 packages is in RHEL 5.6. ... and available in c5-testing, pending centos-5.6 release; so if you want

Re: [CentOS] current bind version

2011-02-24 Thread Nico Kadel-Garcia
On Wed, Feb 23, 2011 at 10:23 PM, John R Pierce pie...@hogranch.com wrote: On 02/23/11 6:08 PM, Machin, Greg wrote: Hi. I have had an enquiry from the Network and Security guy. He wants to know why CentOS 5.5 /RHEL 5 is using a very old version of bind “bind-chroot-9.3.6-4.P1.el5_5.3” when

Re: [CentOS] current bind version

2011-02-24 Thread Johnny Hughes
On 02/24/2011 07:12 AM, Nico Kadel-Garcia wrote: On Wed, Feb 23, 2011 at 10:23 PM, John R Pierce pie...@hogranch.com wrote: On 02/23/11 6:08 PM, Machin, Greg wrote: Hi. I have had an enquiry from the Network and Security guy. He wants to know why CentOS 5.5 /RHEL 5 is using a very old

Re: [CentOS] current bind version

2011-02-24 Thread Nico Kadel-Garcia
On Thu, Feb 24, 2011 at 9:31 AM, Johnny Hughes joh...@centos.org wrote: On 02/24/2011 07:12 AM, Nico Kadel-Garcia wrote: I went through this last week with OpenSSH version 5.x (not currently available for RHEL or CentOS 5 except by third party provided software), and bash. Turns out that

Re: [CentOS] current bind version

2011-02-24 Thread Ross Walker
On Feb 24, 2011, at 9:31 AM, Johnny Hughes joh...@centos.org wrote: I am not saying this to be a smart a$$ or be negative ... just saying that other enterprise distributions exist that provide long term stability without backports ... Unbuntu LTS is a free example. They also provide

Re: [CentOS] current bind version

2011-02-24 Thread Johnny Hughes
On 02/24/2011 05:43 PM, Ross Walker wrote: On Feb 24, 2011, at 9:31 AM, Johnny Hughes joh...@centos.org mailto:joh...@centos.org wrote: I am not saying this to be a smart a$$ or be negative ... just saying that other enterprise distributions exist that provide long term stability without

Re: [CentOS] current bind version

2011-02-24 Thread Les Mikesell
On 2/24/11 7:37 PM, Johnny Hughes wrote: On 02/24/2011 05:43 PM, Ross Walker wrote: On Feb 24, 2011, at 9:31 AM, Johnny Hughesjoh...@centos.org mailto:joh...@centos.org wrote: I am not saying this to be a smart a$$ or be negative ... just saying that other enterprise distributions exist

Re: [CentOS] current bind version

2011-02-24 Thread Ross Walker
On Feb 24, 2011, at 8:37 PM, Johnny Hughes joh...@centos.org wrote: On 02/24/2011 05:43 PM, Ross Walker wrote: On Feb 24, 2011, at 9:31 AM, Johnny Hughes joh...@centos.org mailto:joh...@centos.org wrote: I am not saying this to be a smart a$$ or be negative ... just saying that other

[CentOS] current bind version

2011-02-23 Thread Machin, Greg
Hi. I have had an enquiry from the Network and Security guy. He wants to know why CentOS 5.5 /RHEL 5 is using a very old version of bind bind-chroot-9.3.6-4.P1.el5_5.3 when the latest release that has many security fixes is on 9.7.3 . I understand that its to maintain a known stable platform by

Re: [CentOS] current bind version

2011-02-23 Thread Nico Kadel-Garcia
On Wed, Feb 23, 2011 at 9:08 PM, Machin, Greg greg.mac...@openpolytechnic.ac.nz wrote: Hi. I have had an enquiry from the Network and Security guy. He wants to know why CentOS 5.5 /RHEL 5 is using a very old version of bind “bind-chroot-9.3.6-4.P1.el5_5.3” when the latest release that has

Re: [CentOS] current bind version

2011-02-23 Thread Always Learning
On Thu, 2011-02-24 at 15:08 +1300, Machin, Greg wrote: I have had an enquiry from the Network and Security guy. He wants to know why CentOS 5.5 /RHEL 5 is using a very old version of bind “bind-chroot-9.3.6-4.P1.el5_5.3” when the latest release that has many security fixes is on 9.7.3 . I

Re: [CentOS] current bind version

2011-02-23 Thread Steve Walsh
On 02/24/2011 01:08 PM, Machin, Greg wrote: Hi. I have had an enquiry from the Network and Security guy. He wants to know why CentOS 5.5 /RHEL 5 is using a very old version of bind bind-chroot-9.3.6-4.P1.el5_5.3 when the latest release that has many security fixes is on 9.7.3 . I

Re: [CentOS] current bind version

2011-02-23 Thread Ross Walker
On Feb 23, 2011, at 9:08 PM, Machin, Greg greg.mac...@openpolytechnic.ac.nz wrote: Hi. I have had an enquiry from the Network and Security guy. He wants to know why CentOS 5.5 /RHEL 5 is using a very old version of bind “bind-chroot-9.3.6-4.P1.el5_5.3” when the latest release that has

Re: [CentOS] current bind version

2011-02-23 Thread Machin, Greg
mailing list Cc: centos@centos.org Subject: Re: [CentOS] current bind version On Feb 23, 2011, at 9:08 PM, Machin, Greg greg.mac...@openpolytechnic.ac.nz wrote: Hi. I have had an enquiry from the Network and Security guy. He wants to know why CentOS 5.5 /RHEL 5 is using a very

Re: [CentOS] current bind version

2011-02-23 Thread John R Pierce
On 02/23/11 6:08 PM, Machin, Greg wrote: Hi. I have had an enquiry from the Network and Security guy. He wants to know why CentOS 5.5 /RHEL 5 is using a very old version of bind “bind-chroot-9.3.6-4.P1.el5_5.3” when the latest release that has many security fixes is on 9.7.3 . I

Re: [CentOS] current bind version

2011-02-23 Thread Ross Walker
On Feb 23, 2011, at 10:23 PM, John R Pierce pie...@hogranch.com wrote: On 02/23/11 6:08 PM, Machin, Greg wrote: Hi. I have had an enquiry from the Network and Security guy. He wants to know why CentOS 5.5 /RHEL 5 is using a very old version of bind “bind-chroot-9.3.6-4.P1.el5_5.3” when