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Internet Systems Consortium Seeks Wider Input For BIND 10

Posted by timothy on from the one-bind-to-ring-them-all dept.

joabj writes "The ISC is seeking some open source magic for the next version of the widely used BIND. Although the BIND is already open source, most of the work thus far done on the DNS server software has come from contractors, the government and Unix vendors. 'The goal is to move away from having BIND a heavily sponsored corporate product,' said BIND 10 manager Shane Kerr. Kerr is hoping that more eyes will equal fewer bugs, and that more users will go ahead and implement the features they've been requesting themselves. BIND 10, due by the end of the year, features a new modular architecture, one designed to circumvent many of the security woes that have bedeviled BIND 9."

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  1. Non heirarchical naming by Colin+Smith · · Score: 4, Interesting

    Screw bind, what's needed is a non heirarchical name resolution mechanism.

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    1. Re:Non heirarchical naming by MaraDNS · · Score: 5, Interesting

      You know, I keep hearing on Slashdot about the need for some kind of non-hierarchical peer-to-peer name resolution to replace DNS. What I haven't seen is a working proposal for such a system; the closest I've seen is Namecoin.

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      MaraDNS is an open-source DNS server.
  2. Distributed DNS by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 3, Interesting

    We are sick and tired of being threatened by our governments on behalf of failing business models (MAFIAA)

    We want distributed DNS (like this: http://dot-bit.org/Main_Page)

    (For non-techies: Think of DNS servers functioning like BitTorrent.)