Most popular DNS

Zack Damen zack at ewanted.com
Mon Apr 3 20:48:04 UTC 2000


Yes you are right but please note that it's much easier for a hacker to
crack the box with one then with two.
Stephen Carville <carville at ugsolutions.com> wrote in message
news:38E7A65F.7510B8FA at ugsolutions.com...
> Zack Ayman Damen wrote:
> >
> > "Ralf Hildebrandt" <R.Hildebrandt at tu-bs.de> wrote in message
> > news:20000401151125.Q7724 at stahlw06.stahl.bau.tu-bs.de...
> > > On Fri, Mar 31, 2000 at 08:53:01AM -0500, Shawn Mcpherson wrote:
> > > > I'm looking for some stats on what DNS servers are the most popular.
> > > > Specifically, what apps (Bind, IIS, etc) on what OS (Unix,
Linux,etc)
> > on
> > > > what platforms (Solaris, Intel, etc).
> > >
> > > BIND
> > >
> > >
> > Most people use linux. If you plan to go this route make sure to lock
down
> > the box by applying all the lastest software patch or just make sure you
> > install redhat 6.2. Also make sure you use ssh2 to secure the box. This
> > should take care of you for most of the issues at hand.
>
> Good advice but I would recommend using openssh instead of ssh2.  I am
> using the Linux port and, not only is it open source under a BSD
> license, it is considerably faster than ssh2.  It was a _lot_ easier
> to get the RSA authentication working too.  Openssh supports the ssh 1
> and ssh 1.5 protocols.  The win32 clients written for ssh 1 all seem
> to work with openssh as well.
>
>
>





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