Re: Re: Re: Re: Sun Patch Id #102060-01

Pete Hartman (pwh@bradley.bradley.edu)
Tue, 20 Dec 94 11:07:34 -0600

>> >> 4.1.4 ??? I thought that 4.1.3_U1b was to be the very last release
>> >> of sunos4...
>> The people I spoke with were quick to point out that you don't buy 
>> much over Solaris 1.1.1_U1 except to have a kernel for new HyperSparc 
>> machines.  Notably, I was told that it doesn't have the patches integrated 
>> into it, just along in a subdirectory on the CDROM.
>Not what I heard from Mark Graff (A SUN Internal Security guy).
>He indicates that the patches are integrated.  Now I have no 
>personal knowledge of this yet.


Several people have told me this, as well as the fact that the
name resolver is based on a newer version of BIND (4.8.3 from
memory, but that may be wrong) as well.

I guess the CE I was talking to was not quite up on things, though
that seems atypical for him.