At 03:30 PM 2/9/2001 +0000, Herman Van Keer \(N\) \[M-PRO\] wrote:
>I heard some very bad news about bind (in general for bugs [security]
>and specifically now with their pay-policy ;-) )
There is no "pay-policy". Bind remains open-source just like it always has
been. Some organizations are being asked to pony up some of the cost of
notifying vendors quickly about security holes, but that's it.
>An alternative to bind, could be djbdns... from Dan Bernstein (creator
>of qmail).
>Has anyone have experience with this DNS server?
>Security?
It's an alternative; I haven't used it, but it's an option for many sites.
Bind 9.x (what I'm using) appears to be a real improvement from older
versions of Bind.
-Rick
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