Re: how to get people to upgrade? (Re: The weak link? DNS)

[Kurt Erik Lindqvist]

> so here's a proposal.  we (speaking for ISC here) could add a config 
> option
> (default to OFF) to make bind send some kind of registration packet at 
> boot
> time, containing an e-mail address for a technical contact for that 
> server,
> and perhaps its hostname as well.  the destination would be 
> configurable, and
> the format would be open, and we would include in the distribution a 
> tool
> capable of catching these.  any campus/WAN admin who wanted to run 
> their own
> "BIND registration system" could do so.  anyone who wanted to simply 
> config
> their server to send registration data to ISC could do so.  for data 
> received
> at ISC, we'd (a) keep it completely private other than public 
> statistics,
> (b) clean it of obvious trash (some people will sent registration data 
> for
> president@whitehouse.gov just for fun; we know that), and (c) use the 
> contact
> information only in the event that a security defect discovered in that
> version.  remember, the default would be OFF.
Isn't the problem with this that in order to get the code out, people 
need to upgrade and you therefor risk ending up with only notifying the 
people that upgrade anyway?

- kurtis -