[plug] /newbie - DNS problems?

[Beau Kuiper]

Hi,

I agree 250%. If you don't explicitly need DNS, get rid of it. Several remote
exploits have been found in bind (the DNS server package) over time. There may
be more in there.

BTW, DNS, bind in particular, is hard to configure. Much harder than any other
program I have had to configure on linux. There is a lot of background
knowledge needed just to get started configuring it.

Beau Kuiper
kuiperba at cs.curtin.edu.au

On Wed, 24 May 2000, Christian wrote:
> On Wed, May 24, 2000 at 11:11:31AM +0800, Earnshaw, Mike wrote:
> > Attached is a report I have been receiving regularly on our Linux box. Being
> > fairly new and not knowledgeable of DNS, how bad are these messages?
> > Comments from more knowledgeable DNS people would be greatly appreciated.
> 
> Do you need to be running a DNS server?  If you're new to it and
> presumably haven't configured it to do anything then it doesn't make
> much sense to be running it and is only going to be taking up system
> resources and exposing you to additional security risk.  If you don't
> need it, uninstall it.
> 
> Regards,
> 
> Christian.