On 28 Jan 1997, Rick Byers writes:

> As far as I can tell, the netbsd talkd is safe.  The Bind that comes
> with netbsd on the other hand, may not be.  Would anyone else care
> to confirm this?

I'm not an expert on security holes in BIND, but the 4.9.5-REL release
of BIND compiles and installs "out of the tarfile" on NetBSD 1.2/i386.
I did it, just to be safe (well, safer, anyway!).

Jonathan
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