> Date: Mon, 27 Sep 2010 09:46:44 -0500 > From: Jerry Kemp <dns.bind.l...@oryx.cc> > Sender: bind-users-bounces+oberman=es....@lists.isc.org > > IMHO, the primary benefit of chrooting is security. > > another, less painful option, again IMHO, is to run BIND in a jail if > you are using BSD, or a zone if you are on Solaris, or a Solaris based > distro.
While both are pretty simple to do on BSD, jail is far more secure, but I certainly find setting up jails more complex than chrooting. (Besides, the FreeBSD BIND is chrooted by default, so there is nothing to set up.) -- R. Kevin Oberman, Network Engineer Energy Sciences Network (ESnet) Ernest O. Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab) E-mail: ober...@es.net Phone: +1 510 486-8634 Key fingerprint:059B 2DDF 031C 9BA3 14A4 EADA 927D EBB3 987B 3751 _______________________________________________ bind-users mailing list bind-users@lists.isc.org https://lists.isc.org/mailman/listinfo/bind-users
