Urgent Update needed for DNS problem

[Husse]

Update your systems immediately!
An error has been disclosed that affects the DNS protocol
Both DNS servers and clients need to update, and there is already some level 3 updates to fix this
See also
https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/ubunt ... 00726.html
This can be used for spoofing but as the bug is being fixed this will hopefully not happen

[GrayWizardLinux]

Thanks for the heads up!

[awong]

Will Mint 4 users be able to update through mintUpdate, or just through the Bind vulnerability ink provided? Casual Mint users may miss this forum announcement, but I realize it may be a lot of work to setup mintUpdate for previous versions of Mint.

[GrayWizardLinux]

I did the mint update in daryna - hope that got it...if not then I need help in trying to figure out what to do too.

[Tony G]

You can use the DNS tester to the right, about 1/2-way down ("Check my DNS") to see.

I'm using Darnya KCE, up-to-date, and I passed.

Best,

Anthony

[GrayWizardLinux]

it says it appears to be safe but check the following ports...

I guess I am Ok - and thanks for the link!!!

[Husse]

Luckily (? ) this is fixed upstream in Ubuntu - they have a few more people than we and even paid people ...

[GrayWizardLinux]

yes - but Ubuntu seems to have dropped the ball on many, many bug fixes according to many posts and articles, and comments across the web.

[Husse]

whose balls ?

[GrayWizardLinux]

Thanks for bustin mine... made my day!

[Phosgene]

Updated, still failing the DNS test. Will be working on a solution tonight

[GrayWizardLinux]

did you maybe manually open ports for networking or some such thing? I am 'stock' Daryna and I never opened anything... Just a thought.

[Husse]

@ Phosgene
Does not have to be you - could be your ISP's name server

[Phosgene]

This is a good possibility, I have not done anything out of the ordinary on my linux mint. However my results from Windows seems to be fine.