Nominum Calls Open Source DNS "a Recipe For Problems"

Raindeer writes "Commercial DNS software provider Nominum, in an effort to promote its new cloud-based DNS service, SKYE, has slandered all open source/freeware DNS packages. It said: 'Given all the nasty things that have happened this year, freeware is a recipe for problems, and it's just going to get worse. ... So, whether it's Eircom in Ireland or a Brazilian ISP that was attacked earlier this year, all of them were using some variant of freeware. Freeware is not akin to malware, but is opening up those customers to problems.' This has the DNS community fuming. Especially when you consider that Nominum was one of the companies affected by the DNS cache poisoning problem of last year, something PowerDNS, MaraDNS and DJBDNS (all open source) weren't vulnerable to."

Comments

Re:Good Grief

[MightyMartian]

Well, I haven't seen a product that is as powerful as Bind9, paid or unpaid. The pain in the ass bit is simply the configuration, which when you start talking about various views based on ACLs, can get a bit eye-splitting (but then again, that applies to lots of things with ACLs, like Cisco IOS, Squid, etc).

The guy is a liar. You know it. I know it. I think anybody who actually works with DNS infrastructure knows it.