Date: Sat, 19 Jun 1999 14:48:44 +0200 From: sthaug@nethelp.no To: des@flood.ping.uio.no Cc: jgreco@ns.sol.net, synk@swcp.com, security@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: make world clobbers (was Re: some nice advice...) Message-ID: <61416.929796524@verdi.nethelp.no> In-Reply-To: Your message of "19 Jun 1999 14:34:20 %2B0200" References: <xzp1zf89xo3.fsf@flood.ping.uio.no>
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> > Any server application, be it sendmail, named, ntpd, apache, squid, etc etc > > etc., needs to be compiled fresh from the vendor. > > That is complete bullshit. By doing this, you are *introducing* > problems rather than solving them. The FreeBSD developers spend a lot > of effort fixing bugs, plugging security holes, and adapting software > to run optimally on FreeBSD. You shouldn't hand-roll things like > sendmail or BIND unless you're prepared to spend a *lot* of time > duplicating their work, and making sure you got it right and didn't > introduce any bugs of your own in the process. In general I agree about this. However: BIND 8 works just fine out of the box on FreeBSD. Please check the bind8 port - it changes a few paths, changes the man format and not much else. Steinar Haug, Nethelp consulting, sthaug@nethelp.no To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-security" in the body of the message
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