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From: Stefan Kaltenbrunner <[email protected]>
To: Andrew Sullivan <[email protected]>
Cc: [email protected]
Subject: Re: Insecure DNS servers on PG infrastructure
Date: Sun, 27 Jul 2008 21:59:00 +0200
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Andrew Sullivan wrote:
> On Fri, Jul 25, 2008 at 11:02:03AM -0400, Tom Lane wrote:
>> I just noted that cvs.postgresql.org and svr1.postgresql.org are not
>> running the latest bind release, which means that they are vulnerable to
>> the DNS cache poisoning attack recently discovered by Dan Kaminsky.
>> Vixie and co think this is a pretty big deal, so folks might want to
>> update sooner rather than later.
> 
> This is an extremely big deal.  The numbers I've seen suggest windows
> somewhere around 10 minutes.  If the systems above are doing
> recursion, then they need to be patched right away.  (If they're
> running both authority and recursive services in the same BIND
> instance, I suggest that the practice be abandoned immediately.)

cvs.postgresql.org is not running bind at all - what it is using are two 
(purely) recursive resolvers upstream. One of them is only going to get 
upgraded tomorrow(some changes need to be rolled out in a staged 
fashion) the other one was done a while ago - I have simply removed that 
one from the resolv.conf for the time being.



Stefan

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