Apple in a bind over BIND

Stephen Withers
Monday, 28 July 2008 07:30

Opinion and Analysis

Although BIND is part of Mac OS X (both the regular and server versions, although the latter is the most significant in this situation), Apple has yet to release a BIND update for its customers.

Given that an exploit is publicly available, it makes you wonder why Apple has been so slow to react, especially when other vendors are advising their customers to apply corresponding patches as soon as possible.

It doesn't seem to be a problem for most users in homes and small businesses that rely on their ISPs for DNS, but it's hard to see why Mac OS X Server wasn't updated promptly. And by the time Apple had done that, how much more effort would it have been to release it for the client version of Mac OS X as well?