Open Source BIND Alternative Launches

Posted by kdawson on Wednesday May 21, 2008 @12:04AM from the ties-that-bind dept.

bednarz writes "A group of experts on Tuesday released an open source alternative to the BIND DNS server. The new software — dubbed Unbound 1.0 — is a recursive DNS server. From its first prototype in 2004, Unbound was designed to be a faster, more secure replacement for BIND. Unbound supports DNS security extensions (DNSSEC), which authenticate DNS lookups but are not yet widely deployed because they rely on a public key infrastructure. Unbound was released to open source developers by NLnet Labs, VeriSign, Nominet and Kirei."

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Low Bar by A+R+Baboon · 2008-05-21 02:21 · Score: 0, Flamebait

Well that that is not a very high bar. Writing a better DNS server than bind is very welcome but not actually a daunting feat. I did this several years ago as an undergrad. I had set out only to modify BIND 8 only to find the source is a big ball of spaghetti code. It then became pretty obvious why there were regular exploits.