Date: Sat, 3 Feb 2001 09:04:42 -0600 (CST) From: David Scheidt <dscheidt@enteract.com> To: Rahul Siddharthan <rsidd@physics.iisc.ernet.in> Cc: Terry Lambert <tlambert@primenet.com>, j mckitrick <jcm@FreeBSD-uk.eu.org>, freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: D J Bernstein (was Re: quote about open source) Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.4.21.0102030902300.36491-100000@shell-2.enteract.com> In-Reply-To: <20010203135902.M94275@lpt.ens.fr>
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On Sat, 3 Feb 2001, Rahul Siddharthan wrote: :some of the internet's busiest servers too. It hasn't been updated :since 1997, but then it hasn't needed updating. That's less than accurate. Most large qmail installations have patched djb's distribution. : :So today so many people are worrying about the implications of BIND's :holes for the internet's future, and the BIND team is responding by :suggesting such crap as paid membership for early security alerts; but :back in 1999 DJB actually wrote a bind replacement, and djbdns :actually works beautifully, judging by many user reports. It's substantially less well featured than bind. David To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message
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