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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Re:Both Open Source, Both BSD... by morgan_greywolf · 2008-05-21 00:45 · Score: -1, Redundant

Especially given the fact it sells its self as being more complex and big than its predecessor.
More big and complex than BIND? Are you guys sure Microsoft didn't write this?

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