>>Also wasn't the RH dns prob on dists that at the time were already a
couple of releases old?<<

BIND versions up to 8.2.2 patchlevel 3 are listed as having remotely
rootable exploits. Only *VERY* recent distros are 8.2.2p3 or higher, and
RedHat 6.1 isn't one of them.  8.2.2p3 was released in November.

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