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Technology Stocks : How high will Microsoft fly? -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Joseph Pareti who wrote (56851)	3/25/2001 2:08:59 PM
From: Dave	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 74651

also don't overlook that penguin has already dropped one shoe :-) The Lion worm you're referring to only affects systems that are running an old version of the BIND DNS server (pre January 2001). Hopefully most administrators have upgraded. My understanding is that Linux administrators do so pretty frequently, and usually automatically. By the way, did you read this quote in the article you linked to? "Some critics of BIND point to those flaws and argue that some of its bugs are major design flaws. One critic, who called BIND (which he refers to as Buggy Internet Name Daemon) the Microsoft Windows of DNS software..." Anyway, with all of these reported security holes in Linux and Windows, I think more people will think seriously about running their Internet servers on Mac OS X. Dave