From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from lists.gentoo.org ([140.105.134.102] helo=robin.gentoo.org) by nuthatch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.62) (envelope-from ) id 1HmSkV-0003nM-NN for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Fri, 11 May 2007 10:53:24 +0000 Received: from robin.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.14.0/8.14.0) with SMTP id l4BAq7sS031945; Fri, 11 May 2007 10:52:07 GMT Received: from mail.gmx.net (mail.gmx.net [213.165.64.20]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.14.0/8.14.0) with SMTP id l4BAm0ku027303 for ; Fri, 11 May 2007 10:48:00 GMT Received: (qmail 8534 invoked by uid 0); 11 May 2007 10:48:00 -0000 Received: from 157.247.252.16 by www119.gmx.net with HTTP; Fri, 11 May 2007 12:48:00 +0200 (CEST) Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Date: Fri, 11 May 2007 12:48:00 +0200 From: jarry@gmx.net In-Reply-To: <200705111428.46547.crayon.shin.chan.uk@gmail.com> Message-ID: <20070511104800.8660@gmx.net> Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org MIME-Version: 1.0 References: <49bf44f10705101329l2b0a207cif8c2399ed99623ea@mail.gmail.com> <200705111428.46547.crayon.shin.chan.uk@gmail.com> Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] {OT} web/mail server as nameserver To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org X-Authenticated: #787166 X-Flags: 0001 X-Mailer: WWW-Mail 6100 (Global Message Exchange) X-Priority: 3 X-Provags-ID: V01U2FsdGVkX1/sPVhNP+Psjf2EnrVA7O1s9OLtbzl8q43WvVq6PP Rt/XbSvMSmk0lb9jWdcDq1azlDJHu3Uh8t+g== Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-GMX-UID: 1393cgBLTXsuXq1mbWQ5twZCRzdyMgN7 X-Archives-Salt: ce99e6ea-b555-4db5-8884-c8913611b86a X-Archives-Hash: 4b7adf29a5b610263d8e091477360fc6 Crayon Shin Chan wrote: > > Would you use djbdns for this? > > It would be a more secure choice than bind :) Well, I do not know djbdns well so I can not compare djbdns/bind, but I think bind security is not so bad: it can run as non-root user now, moreover bind supports chrooting "right out the box". Poor security of bind is imho similar superstition as it is for sendmail: once in the past this software had some problem, so now a lot of people think they should forever avoid using it... Jarry -- Ist Ihr Browser Vista-kompatibel? Jetzt die neuesten Browser-Versionen downloaden: http://www.gmx.net/de/go/browser -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list