Re:Systemd-resolved DNS cache poisoning
by tedunangst on Wednesday November 12, 2014 @11:35AM
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> It was a bug in one of their implementations that could have equally happened had it been a stand-alone DNS cache resolver.
Yes. And when it happened before, it was The Bug of the Century. Repeating that mistake is either stupidly incompetent or proof the systemd developers were literally born yesterday.
New development is expected to have some bugs, but it shouldn't sound like a tribute band playing the greatest hits of yesteryear. And they can't exactly fallback on the old standby of "oh, it's a legacy code base."
Yes. And when it happened before, it was The Bug of the Century. Repeating that mistake is either stupidly incompetent or proof the systemd developers were literally born yesterday.
New development is expected to have some bugs, but it shouldn't sound like a tribute band playing the greatest hits of yesteryear. And they can't exactly fallback on the old standby of "oh, it's a legacy code base."