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Give us the DNS patch already, or tell us why you're the last vendor to issue a patch.

This ain't a product launch, and it's a real vulnerability, with live exploits and far reaching consequences, and your delay in issuing the patch is causing your customers real problems. What, do all your customers have to issue directives prohibiting the use of Mac OS X and Mac OS X Server on all boxes that face the public Internet, for you to realize how serious this is?

Because we can't justify the risks in the deltas between the rest of the world issuing a patch and Apple doing it in total silence. Not for critical vulnerabilities like this. Mac OS X has been out since 2000, you're not new at this anymore. Do we really have to start telling our reps that we're going to ban Apple from anything facing the internet for you to pull your heads out? Because once we make that decision, it's going to be years before you ever get a crack at reversing it. Face it, HP does not suck as a server vendor, and lord knows, they're cheaper than Apple on a corporate price list. (I can get Xserve-grade hardware for HALF the cost of an Xserve from HP.)

Oh, and yes, I can indeed roll my own BIND and other packages. But if I'm doing that, then wtf do I get our of Mac OS X that I don't get out of Linux, *BSD, Open Solaris, etc.? I mean, besides a lighter wallet and a pretty logo?

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