BIND

From: Andrew Carroll (andrew_at_carroll-tech.net)
Date: 04/17/04

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    Date: Sat, 17 Apr 2004 12:43:36 -0600
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    > ------------------------------
    > From: Ludovic Brenta <ludovic.brenta@insalien.org>
    > Subject: Re: BIND
    >
    > "Andrew Carroll" writes:
    > > > ------------------------------
    > > > From: "Warren W. Gay VE3WWG" > Subject: Re: No call for Ada
    > > [snip]
    > > > That is why I have said in the past that someone needs to rewrite
    > > > BIND (DNS) in Ada. I would sleep better at night with an Ada version
    > > > of it exposed to the net than the C versions we use.
    > >
    > > I am interested in this. I don't really know if I am qualified,
    > > but am willing to give it my best.
    >
    > The same idea had crossed my mind too, but I'd forgotten. I will
    > help. I can package it for Debian, do bug tracking, documentation,
    > code reviews, automated builds, but no design or coding for lack of
    > time and competence in network programming and security. Andrew, will
    > you take the lead and start a project on SourceForge?

    Alright, I can do that. It won't be this weekend though. We should
    probably
    check into what Lutz Donnerhacke had to say (below) just to give us an idea
    of how feasible this would be. I'm not real familiar with SourceForge. Do
    they
    provide a discussion board and mailing list? If not, I might be able to get
    one
    through the college I graduated from.

    > ----------------------------------------------------------------------
    > From: Lutz Donnerhacke <lutz@iks-jena.de>
    > Subject: Re: BIND
    >
    > * Ludovic Brenta wrote:
    > > Who else will help?
    >
    > I created a whole framework for UDP and TCP handling.

    Does this mean you would like to help?

    > The main problem with DNS is, that the specification does not really
    exists.
    > It is mainly specified by the BIND source code. The main part is parsing
    old
    > BIND configuration files. Futhermore a non crashing implementation is not
    > secure. The protocol has several weaknesses itself an can't be implemented
    > the naïve way.

    If what you say is true, then this is something that needs to be looked
    into.
    RFC's, books, papers, links? Anyone?

    Andrew Carroll
    Carroll-Tech
    720-273-6814
    andrew@carroll-tech.net

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