[cobalt-users] bind workaround

[Grant Stern <grant@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

although nothing is out there threatening just yet, i feel safer (less 
paranoid, whatever) with a workaround in place.  follow these simple 
steps (at least on a raq2) and you may feel less paranoid as well.  
this is will even work for relative newbs, my apologies to the rest for 
the stuff u all know.

the alert page with this workaround is here:

http://bvlive01.iss.net/issEn/delivery/xforce/alertdetail.jsp?oid=21469

ssh into your server, and then:

shell>su -
enter your admin password at the prompt
this will change you into the root user

shell>vi /etc/named.conf

add the following line to this file at or near the top:

options {
        recursion no;
};

save the changes. then

shell>ps aux | grep -e named
the resulting line has a PID for your dns server

shell>kill (the PID number here)
shell>/usr/sbin/named


your done.

hope this helps a few people (only a few of us left with raq2s anyway, 
sigh).
grant
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