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Date:      Thu, 3 Sep 2009 08:08:07 -0400
From:      John Baldwin <jhb@freebsd.org>
To:        freebsd-stable@freebsd.org
Cc:        "Bjoern A. Zeeb" <bzeeb-lists@lists.zabbadoz.net>, FLEURIOT Damien <ml@my.gd>, Doug Barton <dougb@freebsd.org>, freebsd-jail@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Not getting an IPv6 in a jail
Message-ID:  <200909030808.08440.jhb@freebsd.org>
In-Reply-To: <4A9E98AD.1070202@FreeBSD.org>
References:  <ff6efe7e0909011230i414b6791k707f5c58383e9b53@mail.gmail.com> <20090902160440.GA28417@sd-13813.dedibox.fr> <4A9E98AD.1070202@FreeBSD.org>

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On Wednesday 02 September 2009 12:09:17 pm Doug Barton wrote:
> FLEURIOT Damien wrote:
> 
> > BIND's now happily running in its jail and responding to public
> > queries.
> 
> It's up to you if you choose to do it, but there is no reason to run
> BIND in a jail. The chroot feature provided by default by rc.d/named
> is quite adequate security.

That is debatable.  One of the chief benefits of a jail is that if a server is 
compromised so that an attacker can gain root access that root access is 
limited in what it can do compared to a simple chroot.  That is true for any 
server you would run under a jail, not just BIND.

-- 
John Baldwin



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