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FreeBSD 4.8 is very stable.  5.x has some problems. (its new)

Sendmail works fine in FreeBSD 4.8.  Named is considered insecure 
because people use it.  If you pick another product to be "safe", make 
sure no one uses it.  Any suggestion on this list would be to popular 
to be "safe".  As I said in my last email, people find holes in popular 
software more often because they are looking.

If you keep your software up to date, you are "safe" from named or 
sendmail exploits.  This is true on all platforms and will remain true. 
(well ok microsoft doesn't fix everything)

Lucas Holt
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