[Cialug] Are you using IPv6?

Jeffrey Ollie jeff at ocjtech.us
Thu Mar 29 18:50:17 CDT 2012


On Thu, Mar 29, 2012 at 4:16 PM, Zachary Kotlarek <zach at kotlarek.com> wrote:
>
> I've yet to find a DNS cache that:
>        Will listen/respond on IPv6
>        Allows simple overrides to specific domains (i.e. I can redirect queries for example.com to my own DNS server)
>        Isn't BIND (or at least doesn't require me to run the full BIND feature set and all its vulnerabilities)
> so my network is not yet ready for IPv6-only hosts, as DNS queries all must be carried via IPv4. If anyone has suggestions for such a cache I'd be happy to hear about it.

It seems to me that BIND is a victim of it's popularity - there are a
lot of security vulnerabilities found because there are more people
looking for them.  The ISC seems to have a very good record of fixing
any problems quickly as they are found.

-- 
Jeff Ollie


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