--- "Miguel A.L. Paraz" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> djbdns is too limited for a full-featured DNS server
> based on the spec
limited in what form? an example would shed a light on
here
> sheet. I also don't like djb's approach to things,
> they are too different
> from the 'norm.'
diff. from the norm? isn't the word normal differs
from people to people, it's a matter of getting used
to
( i.e. i found djbdns easier to use :) but then again
maybe you find bind easier :) )
>
> I recommend BIND 9 running as a non-root user, which
> requires kernel 2.4 on
> Linux if you want to use threading, because 2.2 and
> below don't have the
> 'drop privileges' kernel facility. I'm also
> confident in the rigorous
> rewrite-from-scratch of BIND 9 as opposed to 8 which
> came from the codebase of
> 4 and below.
confident in the rigorious rewrite fro scratch :)
quoted from http://cr.yp.to/djbdns/ad/unbind.html
But BIND 9 isn't right. It crashes even more often
than BIND 8 does. There are hundreds of bugs listed in
the 9.1.0rc1 CHANGES file. Many of these are serious
reliability problems; for example, ``dns_zone_dump()
overwrote existing zone files rather than writing to a
temporary file and renaming'' means that a temporary
power outage can destroy addresses. Some of the bugs,
just like some of the BIND 8 bugs described on the
BIND company's ``BIND security'' web page, allow
anyone on the Internet to disable BIND with a single
packet. It's just a matter of time before someone sees
how one of these BIND 9 bugs opens up a security hole
reliability - DJB offers a USD 500 to first one who
could find a security hole in the latest version of
djbdns
http://cr.yp.to/djbdns/guarantee.html
http://cr.yp.to/djbdns/ad/security.html
there are other rfc's that bind 9 contradicts
This is not flamebait this is a discussion (not even
an arguement - arguements leads to nothing but fight)
USE whate you prefer and at home with
put aside DJB's ego and his flames and put your
thoughts on his work ( people tend to shy away from
his work because of his ego )
http://cr.yp.to/djbdns/notes.html
-Dek
Qmail + djbdns - Be a DJB fan today.
http://cr.yp.to/djbdns.html
http://cr.yp.to/qmail.html
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