BIND Patches Make Bad Situation Worse

An anonymous reader writes "After .COM and .NET started using a wildcard, the internet community busily started creating patches to various pieces of software to circumvent this. It was said that this was a grave problem to the internet. Several official BIND patches were announced over the next few days. However, it turns out they weren't necessarily too well thought through. Usage of the patch unexpectedly broke at least 7 Top Level Domains, ISC announced 3 weeks later, after users started having problems. The .NAME registry has sent a formal letter to ICANN's Security and Stability Advisory Comittee to warn against using the BIND patch, which they will look into in their next meeting. The intention may have been good, but... Stability? Anyone?"

Comments

Well

[lazyl]

A BIND patch wasn't the right way to address the problem anyway.

The legality of the wildcard scheme is what needs to be addressed. If it's illegal then the bind patch isn't needed, and if it's legal then then BIND people would probably find themselves sued.

Uh...

[dasmegabyte]

DJBDNS, anyone?

The Bind authors are known idiots. Much like users of their software. It's buggier, more resource intensive and slower, but at least it costs more!