Bugtraq: Re: BIND Nuking

[alan () MANAWATU GEN NZ (Alan Brown)]

At 00:49 25/07/97 -0400, you wrote:
> This was sent to me by my nameserver administrator. Credit goes
> to him, listed below.
(This workaround won't work for the attack listed, but it's still useful to
know..)

If you're using named 8.*, it can be run out of inittab with the
non-daemonising switch.

On linuxen:

/etc/inittab

bi:2345:respawn:/usr/sbin/named -f

At least this way, should it die, it'll come back within seconds.

AB