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From: Florian Weimer <fw@deneb.enyo.de>
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Subject: Re: BIND is Crying Out for Ada95
Date: 08 Feb 2001 21:35:10 +0100
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"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.