Re: FreeBSD Security Advisory FreeBSD-SA-02:28.resolv

From: H. Wade Minter (minter@lunenburg.org)
Date: 06/26/02 

Date: Wed, 26 Jun 2002 16:42:39 -0400 (EDT)
From: "H. Wade Minter" <minter@lunenburg.org>
To: Brett Glass <brett@lariat.org>

On Wed, 26 Jun 2002, Brett Glass wrote:

> Worse than that. Every package or port must be reinstalled
> or rebuilt too. Ditto everything you've built from source.
> Basically, the entire system must be ripped up by the roots.
>
> This is scary.

I wouldn't think that ports or packages that don't statically link a
resolver would need to be recompiled.

--Wade 

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