Have a look it dnsjava - http://www.xbill.org/dnsjava/
Damian
"Stuart D. Gathman" wrote:
>
> We need to start hosting our own DNS service, and as as have been researching
> the many known security holes in the standard 'named' BIND server, I notice
> that every one involves "buffer overrun" of some description which lets nasty
> request packets overwrite the stack and execute arbitrary code to become
> root. I am still not convinced that there is a version of Bind entirely free
> of buffer overrun bugs! It seems to me that this is a server that screams to
> be rewritten in Java! It starts once and runs continuously - so JVM startup
> is not a problem. Is anyone aware of an existing effort along this line?
>
> P.S. As an interim, I plan to modify the BIND source to renounce root
> privilege immediate after opening port 53. Why isn't this done as standard
> practice?
>
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> (HINT: Find translation for the "Confutatis" movement of the Mozart
> Requiem).
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