Re: djbdns: Current recommended patches?

On Tue, 19 May 2009, Matthew Dempsky wrote:

> On Tue, May 19, 2009 at 6:37 PM, Dean Anderson <[email protected]> wrote:
> > The Kaminsky/Day/King patches make no distinction between inadvertent
> > and intentional query repetition.  All repetition is removed.
> 
> dnscache has never used intentional query repetition, so there's no
> need for the patch to make a distinction.

DNSCache doesn't need to explicitly do query repetion. The client stub
resolver is often called repeatedly with the same question. Anyone who
has ever actually looked at traces has seen this.  That's why we have
caches. Guess you didn't know that.

> You don't understand how dnscache works.

Oh.  Your 'spurt opinion', I guess.

> Stop pretending that you do.

I've never pretended anything. I've just been right most of the time,
and when I'm wrong, I admit being wrong. Its as simple as that. But you
may want to reconsider your claims and pretensions:

http://www.linkedin.com/in/matthewdempsky

  Matthew Dempsky.s Honors:

  First person to publicly report a security hole in djbdns, 2009. 

Really, I must have missed that post.  I see a couple minor bugs, that
you found, but no security holes.

		--Dean

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