Re: FreeBSD Security Advisory: FreeBSD-SA-01:18.bind

From: Chris Johnson (cjohnson@palomine.net)
Date: 02/01/01 

Date: Wed, 31 Jan 2001 20:01:42 -0500
From: Chris Johnson <cjohnson@palomine.net>
To: Przemyslaw Frasunek <venglin@freebsd.lublin.pl>

On Thu, Feb 01, 2001 at 01:48:19AM +0100, Przemyslaw Frasunek wrote:
> On Wed, Jan 31, 2001 at 11:55:18PM +0200, Roman Shterenzon wrote:
> > Why not make it default in the base system?
>
> The best workaround is not using BIND at all. Consider some alternatives,
> like /usr/ports/net/djbdns.

Yes! Why work around BIND limitiations and do all this sandboxing to try to
limit the damage it can do to you, when there's a better alternative?

Chris

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