FreeBSD, Security, and BIND

[Paul Jacobs]

The system will be as secure as you make it..... Granted FreeBSD has more 
back doors then the white house....


At 03:34 AM 8/3/2000, James Raftery wrote:

>On Wed, Aug 02, 2000 at 07:29:02PM -0700, Chuck Hager wrote:
> >
> > How secure would a FreeBSD 4.0 stable, DNS server, running named
> > 8.2.2-P5, with one NIC attached directly to the Internet be?
>
>Chuck,
>
>How long is a piece of string?
>How competant are your system administrators?
>How could a question phrased like that have a sensible answer?
>
>Regards,
>
>james
>--
>James Raftery (JBR54)  -  Programmer Hostmaster  -  IE TLD Hostmaster
>    IE Domain Registry  -  www.domainregistry.ie  -  (+353 1) 706 2375
>   "Managing 4000 customer domains with BIND has been a lot like
>    herding cats." - Mike Batchelor, on dns at list.cr.yp.to.

Best regards,
Paul Jacobs /Senior Network Eng.
Commerce Service Provider (CSP)
Internet Presence Provider (IPP)
http://www.netpacq.com
mailto:paul at netpacq.com
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