Re: Is my old RedHat computer doomed?

[Nix <nix-razor-pit@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On 26 Jul 2008, Unruh uttered the following:

> Kevin Buzzard <buzzard@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> writes:
>>I have been loathe to change the OS---why fix it if it ain't broke?
>>Upgrading from RH7 to RH8 in 2002 already cost me a lot in terms of
>>responsiveness. But now I am a bit concerned that it probably *is*
>>broke, and quite seriously broke, because of the recent DNS resolving
>>issue thing and reports yesterday that good sploits are now
>
> What in the world has that to do with your home computer? You are not, I
> assume running a DNS server on your machine. There is no dns cache to
> poison.

That's a strange assumption to make. I run DNS servers on my local net
simply to cache requests without going out over the relatively slow
and high-latency ADSL line. So do a lot of people.