Work is now underway for a major rewrite of the popular, open source DNS
tech.
June 11, 2009
By Sean Michael Kerner: More stories by this author:
A decade after work first began on version 9 of BIND, the widely
deployed open source DNS (define) server, work is now fully underway on
its successor, BIND 10.
It's a closely watched and long-anticipated overhaul. BIND is in wide
use among used by enterprises, ISPs and service providers to route
domain name traffic to the correct IP address.
The upcoming BIND 10 release will focus on usability, extensibility and
security improvements. The focus on security is a key one for BIND,
especially in light of the Kaminsky DNS vulnerability that affected BIND
in 2008, which potentially could have disrupted Internet traffic.
"One of the goals for BIND 10 is to allow people to customize and extend
without too much trouble," Shane Kerr, BIND 10's program manager at the
Internet Systems Consortium (ISC), told InternetNews.com. "Every design
decision will be documented in a way that makes sense without having to
know the details of the entire system. The same applies to APIs and the
code itself."
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