Securing DNS From The Roots Up

jeffy124 writes: "This article at ComputerWorld tells the story of how ICANN would like to replace the root DNS systems with secured servers. Lars-Johan Liman, one of the root operators, spoke about the concept at ICANN's annual meeting today. He discussed how the world's current redundant DNS system is vulnerable to DDOS attacks and yet-to-be-discovered root holes in bind that can ultimately undermine the entire Internet by taking away the name-IP mappings that are relied upon by just about everyone."

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Re:Why still running on BIND?

[DaSyonic]

djbdns, and other stuff written by him, (including qmail) is all under a restrictive license. He essentially prevents any vendor/distribution to release it, as any vendor would need to make minor changes, but a vendor can't even change the pathnames to certain files... that's not acceptable.

Read his license and see for yourself.