From owner-freebsd-chat Sun Feb 4 7:15:16 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Received: from lariat.org (lariat.org [12.23.109.2]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 15E7F37B401 for ; Sun, 4 Feb 2001 07:14:58 -0800 (PST) Received: from mustang.lariat.org (IDENT:ppp0.lariat.org@lariat.org [12.23.109.2]) by lariat.org (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id IAA01543; Sun, 4 Feb 2001 08:14:43 -0700 (MST) Message-Id: <4.3.2.7.2.20010204080917.049ecca0@localhost> X-Sender: brett@localhost X-Mailer: QUALCOMM Windows Eudora Version 4.3.2 Date: Sun, 04 Feb 2001 08:14:38 -0700 To: Rahul Siddharthan From: Brett Glass Subject: Re: UNIX-like approach to software and system architecture (Was: D J Bernstein) Cc: freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG In-Reply-To: <4.3.2.7.2.20010203110403.048e78e0@localhost> References: <20010203135902.M94275@lpt.ens.fr> <200102022245.PAA15968@usr08.primenet.com> <20010202140505.B91552@dogma.freebsd-uk.eu.org> <200102022245.PAA15968@usr08.primenet.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"; format=flowed Sender: owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Interestingly, Theo De Raadt also seems to agree that djb's approach to DNS daemons is more sensible and secure than ISC's. In his own words: >ISC has been building a "one shoe fits all" DNS server, designed for >everything from small servers to root servers with the .com hierarchy on >them. Good security software has well constrained behaviours and small >subcomponents, so that unexpected results are minimized. BIND is not >written that way, and has hundreds of little features. It can be very >difficult to assure the quality of software designed to run in a wide >assortment of ways. None of the BIND implimentations has any of the >basic principles we see in great security software, and when we add in >the uniquitous and mono-cultured nature of it's deployment, the >discovery of a really nasty bug could hit really hard. Say, >I-LOVE-YOU.in-addr.arpa? > >We need more DNS server choices. For the article in which he was quoted, see http://securityportal.com/articles/chargingforsecurity20010201.html --Brett To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message