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Re: BIND alternatives



On Wed, 2002-07-24 at 20:40, David Wright wrote:

> > Also, what do you dislike about BIND?  If we know what you're trying to
> > avoid, we can probably give you better answers.
> 
> The constant reports of new BIND vulnerabilities, related to the fact that
> BIND was not designed with security in mind. The complexity and that comes
> from trying to be able to do lots more than I need.

Others commented about bind9.

Also: code that is widely used has its security flaws discovered, and
thus will almost always have more vulnerability reports than code few
people use.

And: the DNS *protocol* was desind without security in mind. You won't
get around this (until DNS-whatever (-sec? -ng?) is really used).

cheers
-- vbi

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