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Oyku Gencay

31 Jul 2001 31 Jul '01

19:29

Hi, I'm wondering, does anyone of you are using djbdns (http://cr.yp.to/djbdns.html) instead of BIND? What are your thoughts. Apart from being vulnerable, BIND frequently crashed. Regards, Oyku

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Adrian Senn

31 Jul 31 Jul

09:00

New subject: [suse-security] DNS: BIND vs djbdns

Hello

I'm wondering, does anyone of you are using djbdns (http://cr.yp.to/djbdns.html) instead of BIND? What are your thoughts. Apart from being vulnerable, BIND frequently crashed.

DJBDNS works and not bad. On our Server we use 250 Domains and creates the records from a database. Its not hard to configure if you understand the syntax. Greetings Adrian Senn -- |p mbox: adrian@senn.ch g mbox: adrian.senn@oui.usz.ch | |www: http://www.senn.ch/; http://www.cevinet.ch/ |

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Schelstraete Bart

09:41

New subject: [suse-security] DNS: BIND vs djbdns

Oyku Gencay wrote:

Hi,

I'm wondering, does anyone of you are using djbdns (http://cr.yp.to/djbdns.html) instead of BIND? What are your thoughts. Apart from being vulnerable, BIND frequently crashed.

BIND crashed? That's strange.........I never had any problems with running BIND. I think BIND is the most complete - stablest - nameserver. (If you don't mind the security issues ) Bart

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Oyku Gencay

19:48

New subject: [suse-security] DNS: BIND vs djbdns

Sorry for the error :) I intended to write "crashes" not "crashed". Both BIND8 and 9 frequently (at least once in two days) crashes. BIND 4 was unsecure, but not so unstable. ----- Original Message ----- From: Schelstraete Bart To: Oyku Gencay Cc: SuSE Security Sent: Tuesday, July 31, 2001 12:41 AM Subject: Re: [suse-security] DNS: BIND vs djbdns

Oyku Gencay wrote:

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Hi,

I'm wondering, does anyone of you are using djbdns (http://cr.yp.to/djbdns.html) instead of BIND? What are your thoughts. Apart from being vulnerable, BIND frequently crashed.

BIND crashed? That's strange.........I never had any problems with running BIND. I think BIND is the most complete - stablest - nameserver.

(If you don't mind the security issues )

Bart

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Markus Gaugusch

09:57

New subject: [suse-security] DNS: BIND vs djbdns

Sorry for the error :) I intended to write "crashes" not "crashed". Both BIND8 and 9 frequently (at least once in two days) crashes. BIND 4 was unsecure, but not so unstable. I've been running Bind8 for >1 year now and never had any strange "crashing" problems. And talking about security, chrooting and running as a non-privileged user seems to be enough for most security leaks, combined with the openwall patch against (some) buffer overflows you don't have to worry, I think.

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StarTux

10:01

New subject: [suse-security] DNS: BIND vs djbdns

Oyku Gencay wrote:

Sorry for the error :) I intended to write "crashes" not "crashed". Both BIND8 and 9 frequently (at least once in two days) crashes. BIND 4 was unsecure, but not so unstable.

----- Original Message ----- From: Schelstraete Bart To: Oyku Gencay Cc: SuSE Security Sent: Tuesday, July 31, 2001 12:41 AM Subject: Re: [suse-security] DNS: BIND vs djbdns

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Oyku Gencay wrote:

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Hi,

I'm wondering, does anyone of you are using djbdns (http://cr.yp.to/djbdns.html) instead of BIND? What are your thoughts.

Apart

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from being vulnerable, BIND frequently crashed.

BIND crashed? That's strange.........I never had any problems with running BIND. I think BIND is the most complete - stablest - nameserver.

(If you don't mind the security issues )

Bart

Never had BIND 8 crash on me...Actually for the first time ever I had Apache report "dead" in red to me. Started again easily though. Matt

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semat

10:29

New subject: [suse-security] DNS: BIND vs djbdns

Hi,

I'm wondering, does anyone of you are using djbdns (http://cr.yp.to/djbdns.html) instead of BIND? What are your thoughts. Apart from being vulnerable, BIND frequently crashed.

djbdns is fine but if you want to use DNSSEC then you have to use bind. Noah.

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Thomas Michael Wanka

15:29

New subject: [suse-security] DNS: BIND vs djbdns

Hi, On 31 Jul 2001, at 10:29, Oyku Gencay wrote:

I'm wondering, does anyone of you are using djbdns (http://cr.yp.to/djbdns.html) instead of BIND? What are your thoughts. Apart from being vulnerable, BIND frequently crashed.

if bind crashes something with your system must not be correct. I run bind and djb nameservers, and apart of some differences in configuration they just "feel" the same when handling them. Be aware that chances are good, that whatever causes bind to crash could cause any other nameserver to crash too (a nic that dies under heavy load or something like that). HTH mike

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Schelstraete Bart
semat
StarTux
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