What DNS is Not

Kris Buytaert — Mon, 09 Nov 2009 21:40:50 +0000

This article by Paul Vixie is a must read if you want to know what DNS is not about .. and how people abuse it for the sake of extorting money from morons.

Ah well.. nothing we didn't already know.. just more proof that
Everything is a Freaking DNS problem.

Not sure on which layer the problem is.. must be on a layer even above the religious one.. the "Greed" one.

Some people just don't get it

Kris Buytaert — Wed, 23 Sep 2009 19:14:07 +0000

I mean, we are heading towards 2010 , some of us have been using Open Source for decades, the Open Source vs Free Software discussion was like last millenium, and we've been doing open source consultancy for over a decade, yet today companies still think their customers are stupid,

Fancy this story on ZDNet today .. there's actually companies out there claiming that "Bind" because of it's FreeWare nature , yes that's right you've Read FREEWARE , (hadn't heard that word for over 5 years..) , is less secure than their proprietary offering in the Cloud. So the very nature of their Secure product is offering Security by Obscurity in an insecure environment .

The sad part is that they probably get customers that believe their story, afterall it's hosted in the Cloud .. so it must be good not ?

Oh well... James McGovern had a nice comment on that earlier today "

"The goal of the security market is to make money, not to ensure the customer's security"

I'll keep my security infrastructure Open, thank you very much

But afterall everything is a fine DNS Problem ...

Everything is a Freaking DNS problem - bind

What DNS is Not

Some people just don't get it