Re: BIND

[Ludovic Brenta <ludovic.brenta@insalien.org>]

Andrew Carroll writes:
[Reimplementing BIND in Ada, creating a project on SourceForge]
> Alright, I can do that.  It won't be this weekend though.  We should
> probably check into what Lutz Donnerhacke had to say (below) just to
> give us an idea of how feasible this would be.  I'm not real
> familiar with SourceForge.  Do they provide a discussion board and
> mailing list?

Yes and yes.  The administrator of the project can request mailing
lists to be created.

And my id on SourceForge is lbrenta, in case you want to add me to the
list of developers for your project.

Lutz Donnerhacke said:
> > The main problem with DNS is, that the specification does not
> > really exists.  It is mainly specified by the BIND source
> > code. The main part is parsing old BIND configuration
> > files. Futhermore a non crashing implementation is not secure. The
> > protocol has several weaknesses itself an can't be implemented the
> > naïve way.
> 
> If what you say is true, then this is something that needs to be
> looked into.  RFC's, books, papers, links?  Anyone?

http://www.dns.net/dnsrd/ looks like a good starting point.

Lutz, do you think your framework would help implement a DNS in Ada?
If so, would you contribute it to the project?

I think that the first step if for all interested people to learn as
much as possible about the current state of the art.  The mailing list
provided for each project by SourceForge would help.

-- 
Ludovic Brenta.