Open Source BIND Alternative Launches

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:DNS is a big problem and it's getting bigger

[kurt555gs]

80 large for software? , and DNS software? are you nuts?

Given BIND is a pig, I think you can by some pretty high horsepower hardware to run it or an open source alternative for a whole lot less.

Do you realize how fast a computer you can get for $80K?

Its just DNS software , why would you want to pay ANYTHING let along that much? Buying a faster computer to do the same thing makes a whole lot more scene.