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Root-server switches from BIND to NSD

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the invulnerability-through-diversity dept.

A Sorry End writes "It appears that one of the 13 root-servers, the core of DNS name resolution, have moved away from BIND to NSD since wednesday, Feb 19th, 2003, which is a Good Thing. Since the 26th of october 1990, all root-servers have been running BIND. According to this message, this change was designed to increase the diversity of software in the root name server system, the lack of which is widely considered to be a potential vulnerability. The nsd software has been designed from scratch specifically as an authoritative name server. It has no design commonalities with bind, the currently prevalent DNS implementation. In addition to that nsd provides a significant increase in the performance reserve of k.root-servers.net. NSD was developed at NLnet Labs in coorperation with RIPE."

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  1. Re:This pisses me off by nitehorse · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    Angry much?

  2. Hello by Alan+Partridge · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    As no-one in the Slashdot edotrial team has apparently enabled Jaguar's built-in spelling service on their expensive Powerbooks, allow me to assist.

    Think of me - if you will - as a kind of human spellchecker for people too lazy / stupid / carefree to enable the spellchecker service that already undoubtedly exists on their PC.

    "in coorperation with"

    should, of course, read

    "in cooperation with"

    some people even like to hyphenate cooperation, but they're nothing but a grammatical lunatic fringe.

    thank you for your time

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    1. Re:Hello by zapfie · · Score: 0, Offtopic

      As no-one in the Slashdot edotrial team has apparently enabled Jaguar's built-in spelling service on their expensive Powerbooks, allow me to assist.

      Apparently they aren't the only ones..

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    2. Re:Hello by noitalever · · Score: 0, Offtopic

      Dang it! I hate it when I mess up a perfectly good burn...

      edotrial... that's the funniest thing I've read in a while...

      Shawn

    3. Re:Hello by Alan+Partridge · · Score: 0, Offtopic

      aargh!

      that's what I get for using Safari - that's it, I'm re-enabling Omniweb as my default browser - this own-pitard-hoisting has got to stop!

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    4. Re:Hello by zapfie · · Score: 0, Offtopic

      I'd go for Chimera personally, I love Omniweb, but the standards support is about on par with Netscape 4.. I'd rather use browsers that don't hold back web development. Maybe OW5 will be good though.

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  3. I agree -- that *was* funny by 0x0d0a · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    You know, the "foo is dying" posts, if well-written, really *are* funny. When you're having a conversation, moderators, don't *you* crack a few jokes?

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  4. Re:This pisses me off by snack-a-lot · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    Nah, not really. I suddenly got a surge of anger just before I was about to type in a possibly insightful post, and out popped that little ball of fury.

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  5. Re:New vulnerabilities by SpaceLifeForm · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    Speaking of /.-ing /.,
    has anyone else else noticed performance problems since Slashdot moved to the left coast?

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