Re: Running public DNS server on iSeries

[Larry Bolhuis <lbolhuis@xxxxxxxxxx>]

David Gibbs wrote:

> I'm always a bit leery of running a DNS server on my own systems ... in
> the *nix world BIND, the standard DNS server, has been kind of
> susceptible to security issues.  Obviously this wouldn't be the case on
> an iSeries.
   Except for the fact the iSeries runs BIND too. Bind 8 in fact so 
it's a bit behind the *nix world.  I'm not saying don't do it by any 
means because I do it frequently.  For many customers it's the internal 
only DNS but for some it's on-line-live.  We have not had any issues 
with them being compromised or attacked from the outside.

  - Larry

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