Root-server switches from BIND to NSD

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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Re:BIND software, Dead at 14

[mcrbids]

I just heard some sad news on talk radio this morning. BIND was found dead in its Berkeley home this morning.

Posts like this necessitate a new type of rating:

Cliche, -1

Slashdot will no longer be among my bookmarks.

[Anonymous Coward]

"coorperation"?! Do I have to be the first to gripe about the poor spelling in Slashdot posts?! "operation" is the root word. Co- operation. Come on, people.

I do not agree that Slashdot should completely quote their submitters' postings, and just post them wholesale to the site, saying, for example:

yourmomma writes, "yadda yadda yadda".

With the yaddas completely unedited (and definitely duplicated), by the way.

Okay, fuck Slashdot. The recent "Michigander" post and "The Matrix Sequels?" poll make me realize that Slashdot is a US-centric and sensationalist thing.

What about bind 9?

[eonblueye]

Isn't BIND 9 suppose to fix this? (It's a complete rewrite of their pervious buggy code.)