I suppose the difference is that if someone breaks into a chrooted 
dns server, that there are almost no userland utils for them to use
to attack other machines, and it becomes more of a DOS on your dns
server.

Cheers!

--Matt Galgoci

On Wed, Dec 06, 2000 at 12:28:32PM -0600, almquist paul wrote:
> > 
> > Hi
> > 
> > I have found several excellent discussions about this, and even a script
> > that helps set this up (http://sourceforge.net/projects/ctk-dns-chroot/).
> > 
> > However, I'm wondering if there are any BIND rpms available that have this
> > setup already, since I'd prefer it for the maintainance.
> > 
> > Has anyone run two chrooted instances on the sawe machine? I'd like to run
> > 
> Indirectly related to the issue of running bind in chrooted environment I
> read an interesting comment on the subject in "Linux DNS Server Administration"
> by Craig Hunt.  On page 254 he states his opinion on the subject.  To
> paraphrase:  Put DNS on a dedicated Linux box.  It is automatically isolated
> from other services and users without the added steps to setup chroot.
> 
> Comments?
> 
> paul
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