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Re: Chroot Debian



On Sat, Oct 02, 2004 at 07:44:02PM -0700, Karsten M. Self wrote:
> While I find chroot _installs_ of Debian, as a way of getting the distro
> onto a computer, useful, I wouldn't run a production system as a whole
> in chroot mode.  Specific services (e.g.:  bind), sure, but that's a
> specialized subcase.

I see this referred to a lot, and it puzzles me. Bind is a DNS server,
right? Why is a DNS server such a security risk that it should be run
in a chroot jail? Is bind - "the most widely used name server software
on the Internet" - really that buggy? Or have I got the wrong end of
the stick?

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