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Open Source BIND Alternative Launches

Posted by kdawson on 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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  1. Java based DNS server? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    Java seems like a logical way to go with this, considering the great track record of other Java web technologies (Tomcat, Jetty, etc).

    Is there anything out there?

  2. No Chance. by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Funny

    All your base belong to BIND.

  3. But, but, but, but... by MasterOfMagic · · Score: 1, Funny

    but what if I like bondage? What would the Internet be without a little (okay, well, a lot) of bondage?!

    1. Re:But, but, but, but... by Enry · · Score: 2, Funny

      So I guess goths go for vampire taps?

  4. Re:Powerdns anyone? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    We use powerdns_recursor which seems very similar, and is very good.

    Return to parent comment.

  5. Re:Are we supposed to trust.. by richie2000 · · Score: 4, Funny

    Anything with Verisign's named attached to it? No, this isn't a named.
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  6. Angry Maintainer! by argent · · Score: 3, Funny

    I can't decide if that should be a new emo superhero or a BOFH-themed ceiling-cat variant.

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  7. Slashdot Barbie... by argent · · Score: 5, Funny

    Slashdot Barbie says "research is hard".

  8. The obligatory... by Jesus_666 · · Score: 2, Funny

    I use Microsoft. Its vendor lock-in strategy surpasses every bondage artist's skill and administering Windows boxen makes my inner masochist cry from glee. And pain, of course.

    They also eat cute little puppies, which is fine with me as I'm a cat person.

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  9. Re:Powerdns anyone? by Bill_the_Engineer · · Score: 2, Funny

    never had a single crash of a pdns_recursor process that wasn't my own fault until this day.

    What caused pdns_recursor to crash today?

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  10. Re:Feh.... by lysse · · Score: 2, Funny

    Dan Bernstein's public demeanor makes Theo de Raadt look like Miss Manners.
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  11. Re:ldapdns by peterbye · · Score: 3, Funny

    Yes, typing 'rndc reload' is such an effort isn't it

  12. Re:Powerdns anyone? by Tarlus · · Score: 2, Funny

    // We use powerdns_recursor which seems very similar, and is very good.

    // Return to parent comment.

    Dang it, I want to read further into the thread but I keep getting a stack overflow before I can get past the second comment.

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  13. Re:It's not... by calmond · · Score: 2, Funny

    Huh, frontpage-information is always quite hard to get. Uh, no it isn't - just go to the frontpage website http://office.microsoft.com/en-us/frontpage/default.aspx Duh
  14. Re:It's not... by Sloppy · · Score: 2, Funny

    You must be new here.

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