Search Again: Re: BIND was :Secondary IP Port Mapping Bug From: Men & Mice Support Date: Monday, August 13, 2001 Time: 9:48:59 pm At 2:16 PM +1000 8/14/01, Nicholas Orr wrote: >In a nutshell I don't see any problem with this, as the bind >software is well received and well supported in the open source >community. However.... > >Can m&m tell us which version of the bind codebase is used in the >current QuickDNS? Currently, 8.2.3. >How soon would you expect bug fixes in bind to be implemented in an update? If there's a security-related update, you should expect a new release from us within short order. I don't think we'll commit to a specific time frame, but it shouldn't be more than a couple of days. >If I hear about a major security hole in bind (as has happened >before) can I assume it's also possibly in quickdns? Yes. However, in a pinch, you can even compile and install from the Bind source code if a new version of Bind is released. >How significant are the changes that m&m made, and in what parts of the code? Extremely minor so far. I don't have a list of specific changes. We may, at some point in the future, release a version with more substantial changes to Bind, such as incorporating support for the load balancing and fault tolerance mechanism in QuickDNS Server for Mac OS 8/9. But even then, it should be possible to swap in the stock Bind release without losing anything other than QuickDNS-specific features. In other words, you'll still have a working DNS server if you do that. >I'm happy to be paying for this software, and I appreciate the work >that has gone in to the interface, but it seems we have lost one of >the benefits of open source if we can no longer rely on the actual >open source software. Did m&m ever consider shipping the source >code to bind, so that you could simply re-compile the newer version >into quickdns, and have the best of both worlds? You mean, release our changes as a patch to be applied to the source code before compiling? We are unlikely to do so. However, again, if you need to quickly update to the latest version of Bind, QuickDNS will work OK with that. After all, the Linux and Solaris (and soon, FreeBSD) versions of QuickDNS use the stock version of Bind. ____________________________________________________________________ Chris Buxton Men & Mice cbuxton@menandmice.com We Make DNS Easy! >(It seems I've raised a few thorny issues there. Don't take this as >dismissal of your software or the effort you've put into it.) > >Nick > >On Tuesday, August 14, 2001, at 01:57 PM, Men & Mice Support wrote: > >>>To run a name server under OS X, we'll be stuck with BIND? >> >>Well, so far we've made a few minor changes to the stock Bind >>codebase, but essentially, yes.

Messages In This Thread: Re: BIND was :Secondary IP Port Mapping Bug by Nicholas Orr on Aug 13, 2001 at 9:15:16 pm Re: BIND was :Secondary IP Port Mapping Bug by Men & Mice Support on Aug 13, 2001 at 9:48:59 pm