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Red Hat Linux 7 and 6.2 customers that subscribe to Red Hat Network quickly received a fix for the widely-reported BIND security hole at 5 p.m. EDT on Monday, January 29, 2001 just hours after the flaw in BIND was discovered by computer researchers.
BIND (Berkeley Internet Name Domain) software was created by the Internet Software Consortium for UNIX and Linux computers. It provides something similar to a global telephone directory for the Internet