BIND: limiting recursion just might make things harder for spammers

Mon Nov 18 09:37:24 PST 2002

On Sun, Nov 17, 2002 at 08:24:01PM -0800, Rick Moen wrote:
> the OpenBSD variant of BIND4 has been doing a damned good job 
> at plugging the incessant holes in that codebase (and runs it chrooted).

Generally true and chrooting is good, especially for BIND 4. :)

I wanted to note that OBSD's BIND had the same problem as the ISC
"canonical" version. I just rebuilt BIND on our OBSD box from the stable 
OpenBSD patch branch on Friday.

:)

Mark
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