From owner-freebsd-chat Mon Feb 5 1:51:52 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Received: from nef.ens.fr (nef.ens.fr [129.199.96.32]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id DDAC237B503 for ; Mon, 5 Feb 2001 01:51:33 -0800 (PST) Received: from corto.lpt.ens.fr (corto.lpt.ens.fr [129.199.122.2]) by nef.ens.fr (8.10.1/1.01.28121999) with ESMTP id f159pR469436 ; Mon, 5 Feb 2001 10:51:27 +0100 (CET) Received: from (rsidd@localhost) by corto.lpt.ens.fr (8.9.3/jtpda-5.3.1) id KAA89231 ; Mon, 5 Feb 2001 10:51:46 +0100 (CET) Date: Mon, 5 Feb 2001 10:51:46 +0100 From: Rahul Siddharthan To: Christian Weisgerber Cc: freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: UNIX-like approach to software and system architecture Message-ID: <20010205105146.B88105@lpt.ens.fr> Mail-Followup-To: Christian Weisgerber , freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG References: <20010203135902.M94275@lpt.ens.fr> <4.3.2.7.2.20010203110403.048e78e0@localhost> <4.3.2.7.2.20010204080917.049ecca0@localhost> <20010204162732.A50591@lpt.ens.fr> <95k10s$1bfc$1@kemoauc.mips.inka.de> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i In-Reply-To: <95k10s$1bfc$1@kemoauc.mips.inka.de>; from naddy@mips.inka.de on Sun, Feb 04, 2001 at 04:46:20PM +0000 X-Operating-System: FreeBSD 3.4-STABLE i386 Sender: owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Christian Weisgerber said on Feb 4, 2001 at 16:46:20: > Rahul Siddharthan wrote: > > > I believe OpenBSD avoided the recent BIND bug, but they still bundle > > their version of BIND 4.x because they aren't satisfied about the > > security of later versions. Do they plan to work on a BIND > > substitute, > > The sentiment has been expressed that a BIND replacement ought to > be written, but I'm not aware of any actual plans from OpenBSD > developers to do so. Saw this somewhere recently: openbind.org was registered as a domain name by Todd Fries of OpenBSD on Feb 1. Doesn't mean there's already a project underway, of course. They probably wanted to avoid the openssh.org problem. > > or pick up djbdns? > > Given the license this is basically impossible. Well -- it doesn't seem worse than the original softupdates license. It would be good if he would liberalise the license -- or he could restrict his security guarantee only to tarballs personally signed by him, or find some other solution which will satisfy his security paranoia but allow others to fiddle with the code.... But I looked through the FreeBSD mailing list archives for djbdns, just for fun, and it's clear that while some people like djbdns, some are very negative about it -- often for reasons relating to the man, rather than the software itself. Rahul To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message