From: Florian Weimer <fw@deneb.enyo.de>
Subject: Re: BIND is Crying Out for Ada95
Date: 08 Feb 2001 21:35:10 +0100
Date: 2001-02-08T21:35:10+01:00 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87u264ap6p.fsf@deneb.enyo.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 3A82D822.E93A2152@home.com
"Warren W. Gay VE3WWG" <ve3wwg@home.com> writes:
> If someone has the time, here is a perfect chance to put Ada95
> into the forefront, with a well written Ada95 version of BIND,
> with fewer weekly exploits. It provides an essential service
> for just about ALL networked systems today (what an opportunity ;-)
Ada wouldn't help here. Even if your DNS name server is more reliable,
DNS will still be subject to all kinds of attacks, because not only
BIND is insecure, the DNS protocol is inadequate, too.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2001-02-08 20:35 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2001-02-08 17:33 BIND is Crying Out for Ada95 Warren W. Gay VE3WWG
2001-02-08 20:35 ` Florian Weimer [this message]
2001-02-08 20:50 ` Warren W. Gay VE3WWG
2001-02-08 21:28 ` Florian Weimer
2001-02-09 9:16 ` Tarjei T. Jensen
2001-02-09 10:43 ` Lutz Donnerhacke
2001-02-09 11:47 ` Lutz Donnerhacke
2001-02-09 13:47 ` Tarjei T. Jensen
2001-02-09 16:04 ` Lutz Donnerhacke
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