Re: Quick BIND question

[jmitchel <jmitchel%bigjar.com@localhost>]

On 2018-09-06 16:21, jmitchel wrote:
> Hello,
>
> I know this is a somewhat annoying question, because it's very broad
> and the server's out of date, but am I going to get in trouble using
> the version of BIND that came with NetBSD 6.1.4. Here's the info:
>
> Karma:/etc/namedb# uname -a
> NetBSD Karma 6.1.4 NetBSD 6.1.4 (GENERIC) i386
> Karma:/etc/namedb# named -V
> BIND 9.9.2-P1 built with defaults
> using OpenSSL version: OpenSSL 1.0.1g 7 Apr 2014
>
> The box will be answering queries from a cached version of the Windows
> DNS domain, and will also be used to forward all non-local lookups to
> OpenDNS. It is behind a SonicWall firewall and there isn't any direct
> access to port 53 (either TCP or UDP) from the Internet. What are the
> odds the server will be okay?
>
> I know I should just install the latest version, but I'm under the gun
> as we've just realized that there are about 400 "Malware" DNS queries
> per day and I'm worried about what's installed on what computers and
> want to know which ones are infected ASAP.
>
> Thanks in advance for reading and any help you can provide.
>
> Jason M.

Never mind (I think). I checked pkgsrc before writing this, but didn't 
check the right directory. I just found bind-9.10.8pl1nb1 and will use 
that. But if there's any reason I should be wary with the newer 
software, please let me know.

Thanks,

Jason M.