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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."
Bill Gates has worked his magic once again. XP is the gateway to the future of computing. The wizards of Redmond have stepped up to the plate and once again and hit a grand slam. Ask yourself could life be any better.
.NET, PassPort and HailStorm computing will enter a platinum age. Developers using the latest Microsoft development tools will be creating software wonder after wonder.
You want security get XP. You want a dynamic Web experience get XP. You want your computer to sing and fly get XP. I have and I can tell you my computer soars like and eagle. I am flying when at the keyboard. Truly, it is better than sex.
By this time next year when old technologies are replaced with
Don't listen to the nabobs or negativism or open source reactionaries trying to pawn off a dying operating system (Linux) as cutting edge. If you want security, cutting edge technology step up to the plate and upgrade to XP.
Nuff Said.
That Billy Gates really did a good job with the new XP version of Windows this time around. There is this brand new revolutionary thing called a thread. A thread is like an app or applet that the kernel can manipulate. The kernel can focus on executing one thread at a time and then move on to the next. Whats really cool about this is that Bill Gates figured out all by himself that if the computer switches between tasks really quickly, then the computer will appear to multitask. I wonder if Ken Thompson Or Linus ever heard of this. You know what? I bet with some sort of flag you can even have scheduler in the mix too to tell the kernel how to multitask which thread. Come to think of it Bill invented something brand new called a mutex flag to tell the kernel how to switch between hard at work tasks and idle tasks. This is truly revolutionary. Also there is this brand new thing called protected memory. Instead of having an app do a memory call you can have the app call the os to reserve and manage the memory! wow! Dang! Now that is some awesome stuff. Do any of you know when Linux or Freebsd will support them. I wonder if you can add a atrribute to a file on the filesystem to tell the kernel the security on each file? Hmmm I am sure Microsoft is working on inventing the first acl right now. All is good with Microsoft.
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get it ? :)
ok, I tried to be funny.
And yes we do use bind at work (and yes I'll look into upgrading again).
New things are always on the horizon