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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. It's not... by cosmocain · · Score: 5, Informative

    ...a DNS-Server.

    Taken from here: Unbound is a validating, recursive, and caching DNS resolver. Huh, frontpage-information is always quite hard to get.

  2. FYI, bind9 is already open source by molo · · Score: 5, Informative

    This posting makes it sound like bind9 is not sufficiently open/free. That is not correct, and kdawson should do a better job of editing to prevent biased postings like this.

    Bind9 is licensed under the ISC license, a BSD-like license. The full text of the license follows.

    -molo

    Copyright (C) 1996-2001 Internet Software Consortium.

    Permission to use, copy, modify, and distribute this software for any
    purpose with or without fee is hereby granted, provided that the above
    copyright notice and this permission notice appear in all copies.

    THE SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED "AS IS" AND INTERNET SOFTWARE CONSORTIUM
    DISCLAIMS ALL WARRANTIES WITH REGARD TO THIS SOFTWARE INCLUDING ALL
    IMPLIED WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY AND FITNESS. IN NO EVENT SHALL
    INTERNET SOFTWARE CONSORTIUM BE LIABLE FOR ANY SPECIAL, DIRECT,
    INDIRECT, OR CONSEQUENTIAL DAMAGES OR ANY DAMAGES WHATSOEVER RESULTING
    FROM LOSS OF USE, DATA OR PROFITS, WHETHER IN AN ACTION OF CONTRACT,
    NEGLIGENCE OR OTHER TORTIOUS ACTION, ARISING OUT OF OR IN CONNECTION
    WITH THE USE OR PERFORMANCE OF THIS SOFTWARE.

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  3. Re:djbdns by oyenstikker · · Score: 5, Informative

    the few Freedom wrinkles in the license.

    djbdns is now in the public domain (as of December 2007). Before that, there was no license.

    http://cr.yp.to/distributors.html
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