BIND: limiting recursion just might make things harder for spammers

Sun Nov 17 20:24:01 PST 2002

Quoting Chuck Yerkes (chuck+baylisa at snew.com):

> BIND 9 good.
> BIND 9 friend.
> Chuck like BIND 9.
> 
> That said, BIND 4 is faster than BIND 8 is faster than BIND 9.1.x was.

A good point.  

I wish MaraDNS and MyDNS were more extensively torture-tested, since 
both make BIND4 look sluggish by comparison.  Meanwhile, for high-load
sites, the OpenBSD variant of BIND4 has been doing a damned good job 
at plugging the incessant holes in that codebase (and runs it chrooted).

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