Tag: nsd

Years ago I wrote a class that included a long section on configuring DNS – the Domain Name System the Internet uses to “resolve” human-readable names into machine-processable IP addresses. I focused on explaining how to make it work. In a later security course I explained issues with DNS and how BIND 9 would fix […]

I’m a big advocate of FOSS or Free and Open-Source Software. Although, is it really more stable and secure? We keep hearing the “Many eyes make bugs shallow” mantra, but it took how long for the Heartbleed bug in OpenSSL to be noticed? The way I look at it is that all operating systems have […]