Re: [fw-wiz] DNS Extensions and Firewalls

From: Frank Knobbe (fknobbe@knobbeits.com)
Date: 02/22/03

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    From: Frank Knobbe <fknobbe@knobbeits.com>
To: firewall-wizards@honor.icsalabs.com
Date: 21 Feb 2003 20:14:25 -0600

    On Fri, 2003-02-21 at 14:37, Thomas H. Ptacek wrote:
    > PS: I'm happy to move away from the Bernstein discussion. However, you
    > don't make it easy with innuendo about "single developer projects".
    > Despite "single developer status", djbdns is the second-most popular
    > DNS implementation. Despite "single developer status", qmail is the
    > second-most popular Unix SMTP implementation. Both projects, in
    > massive use across the Internet, maintain amazing security track
    > records, despite huge incentive to unseat them.

    hehe.... I don't want to drag this further out either, but I do have to
    say this: Neither djbdns nor qmail are single developer projects. Maybe
    in terms of who wrote the original code, but there are a lot of folks
    out there contributing to both, djbdns and qmail, through the means of
    patches.

    Matter the fact, if one visits qmail.org and reviews the web site and
    all the patches available for qmail, one will realize that there is a
    real community out there caring, patching, and developing qmail.

    Cheers,
    Frank (who prefers to copy 'host files' over ssh for djbdns... ;)

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