Bug 34578

Summary: Mis-reference in DNS chapter [patch]
Product: Documentation Reporter: yonatan <yonatan>
Component: Books & ArticlesAssignee: freebsd-doc (Nobody) <doc>
Status: Closed FIXED    
Severity: Affects Only Me    
Priority: Normal    
Version: Latest   
Hardware: Any   
OS: Any   
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Description yonatan 2002-02-03 10:20:03 UTC 
A note in the "DNS" chapter in "Advanced Networking" points to the wrong mailing list for security topics.

How-To-Repeat: Read "Advanced Networking" the part about DNS,
and see that in the "security" section the recommendation
is to subscribe to "-announce" for security information.
This is bogus.
Just wail 'till the next 'remote-root-exploit' for BIND and see for yourself. :)
Comment 1 Szilveszter Adam 2002-02-03 11:01:10 UTC 
Hello,

I think that suggesting -security for people who only want to track
security announcements is quite a bit gross. Especially lately there are
quite a few people there who have nothing better to do than chat about
just any topic that crosses their mind, no matter if it is really
off-topic. So the traffic is at times large and the S/N ratio sometimes
terrible, not something a busy sysadmin would want to monitor.

If you just want the security advisories, you should pick
security-notifications. But they are also mailed to -announce, plus a
there you get a few other items that you might be interested in as a
FreeBSD user. The advisories are also mailed to eg bugtraq. (or at least
used to)

--
Regards:

Szilveszter ADAM
Szombathely
HUNGARY
Comment 2 chern freebsd_committer freebsd_triage 2002-02-06 11:05:05 UTC 
State Changed
From-To: open->closed

-security-notifications would be the most ideal list here, 
although -announce is also sent the advisories. 

Committed this change, thanks!