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RHN Bind Update Brings Down RHEL Named
alexs writes "Red Hat's response to update bind through RHN, patching the DNS hole, made a fatal error which will revert all name servers to caching only servers. This meant that anyone running their own DNS service promptly lost all of their DNS records for which they were acting as primary or secondary name servers. Expect quite a few services provided by servers running RHEL to, errr, die until their system administrators can restore their named.conf. Instead of installing etc/named.conf to etc/named.rpmnew, Red Hat moved the current etc/named.conf to etc/named.conf.rpmsave and replaced etc/named.conf with the default caching only configuration. The fix is easy enough, but this is a schoolboy error which I am surprised Red Hat made. Unfortunately we were hit and our servers went down overnight while RHN dropped its bomb and I am frankly surprised there has not been more of an uproar about this."
You morons and all the morons who modded you up seem to be living in a fairy tale world. Not all companies can afford production and test servers. Not all System Admins have a team of IT workers. Some of us actually do more then System Admin work and quite frankly considering tens of updates come out a week there is no time to even test things like this. Example: The company I work for just fought back from the brink of destruction when the market for mortgages collapsed. We went to about 25 employees and now are back at 60. We only have four servers all in production. I am the IT Department. Me, myself and I. That's it. Quite frankly I'm wasting a lot of time explaining this shit to morons like you but you pissed me off. Don't just fucking assume that everybody works in blah blah corporate environment with infinite IT budget (or a budget at all) and has a team of people working with them. Considering Small business makes up a big portion of ALL business your assumption is WRONG more then it is right.