[OT] Oh, the irony... (Was Re: [Pdns-users] freebsd port update?)

[Ian R. Justman]

Richard Arends wrote:

*snip!*

> ----
> Paul Vixie in an interview with Sendmail.net:
> 
> Now that the Internet has the full spectrum of humanity as users,
> the technology is showing its weakness: it was designed to be
> used by friendly, smart people. Spammers, as an example of a class,
> are neither friendly nor smart.

Love the sig.  :)

While Vixie has a valid point, if I might add with a bit of well-deserved 
biting sarcasm:

It's thanks to folks like BIND's Vixie and Sendmail's Eric Allman (as 
represented above with the sendmail.net domain) who never designed BIND nor 
Sendmail with security in mind, the Internet was made a safe haven for 
those very people who are neither friendly nor smart in the first place.

Seriously, while major strides have been made, I'm still not completely 
convinced that their respective packages are all that much safer as 
evidenced by recent issues found in Sendmail and BIND (and much worse, the 
ISS's and the ISC's handling of the three serious bugs found in BIND 4 and 
8 back in October/November.

Which is why I use alternative packages, such as PowerDNS, so I don't have 
to put up with stuff like that.

--Ian.