May's editions of Daemon News and FreeBSD'zine

questionlp writes "The waiting is over! The May issue of Daemon News is now available on-line here. The new issue covers a wide range of topics from Webmin, web security via encryption and authentication, and the usual monthly Answerman column, plus a lot more." and jim writes "This month's first FreeBSD'zine issue includes articles on running BIND in a jail, scanning email for virii, an introduction to mutt, and keeping your FreeBSD docs tree up-to-date. Go take a look." Its also worth mentioning that starting this month, the 'zine will be released twice a month

Running Bind Jailed

[the_ed]

With the widespread use of both Bind and exploits for Bind, it's quite important that people who choose to run a publically accessable nameserver do so responsible. While I still personally prefer djbdns for security, Bind does have its share of unique features, such as dynamic DNS.

So, the moral of this post is that in systems administration, like anything else, education is paramount. So, if you're gonna run Bind, this is definately worth a read.

Re:Running Bind Jailed

[Brew Bird]

From ISC's Home page:
ISC BIND
BIND (Berkeley Internet Name Domain) is an implementation of the Domain Name System (DNS) protocols and provides an openly redistributable reference implementation of the major components of the Domain Name System, including:
a Domain Name System server (named)
a Domain Name System resolver library
tools for verifying the proper operation of the DNS server
The BIND DNS Server is used on the vast majority of name serving machines on the Internet, providing a robust and stable architecture on top of which an organization's naming architecture can be built. The resolver library included in the BIND distribution provides the standard APIs for translation between domain names and Internet addresses and is intended to be linked with applications requiring name service.

Ack!!!! Another month is gone!!!

[mr]

Alas, I do not look forward to the new daemonnews, for that means another month has started, and my tasks that are undone by the end of the month have grown!

Curse you dependable Deamons!