Re: Fingerprinting DNS implementations.

[Dean Anderson <dean@av8.com>]

On Wed, 10 Dec 2003, Ted Lemon wrote:

> On Dec 10, 2003, at 12:53 PM, Dean Anderson wrote:
> > This could get into a sort of war of fingerprinting and obscuring 
> > changes,
> > which would seem to be destructive...
> 
> Or, it could turn into a war of bug fixing, which would be constructive,
> and would motivate people to move to less buggy versions of their name
> server software.

I'm Doubtful. The (linux) fingerprint changes seem (to me anyway--not an
expert on the exact changes), gratuitous changes that aren't expected to
actually break anything. This is a far cry from fixing bugs.  Its just
busy work created by the need for a response to fingerprinting.  Its also
not usaully done in the mainline, but as optional changes, basically
making it seem like there are more versions then there are.

		--Dean


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