Re: Just Passing By

[Martin Krischik <krischik@users.sourceforge.net>]

Ludovic Brenta wrote:

> Martin Krischik wrote:
>> Yes Bind starts quite OK on my computer. But it does not do anything. No
>> matter how many hosts I add to the "database", how much I tweak the
>> configuration, it just won't do anything apart from starting.
> 
> Of course, you do start BIND in a chroot jail, don't you?  A sysadmin
> friend of mine says his logs reveal his BIND servers are constantly
> being attacked by robots that look for known root exploits and other
> niceties in BIND.  He says, "every good sysadmin knows NEVER to run
> BIND outside of a chroot jail".

1st) On SuSE chroot is default.
2nd) dns does not get past the firewall - so I hope.

I only installed BIND because I did not want to copy "/etc/hosts" to every
machine. But as I said: It failed miserably.

I got all the other network services running on my SOHO Linux Network. Only
BIND does not cooperate.
 
And reading a x-hundred page book for a hand full of computers seems
overkill.

With Regards

Martin

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