I set up a DNS server with BIND on my ESXi home lab running on a Dell server. I also setup a secondary DNS server which is a slave to the primary, also a VM on the Dell. On the secondary, in ...

The Internet Systems Consortium (ISC) today issued a temporary patch for an as-yet unidentified flaw in the DNS BIND 9 platform that is causing servers around the Internet to crash. Chaouki Bekrar, ...

BIND is the most popular internet DNS server. Like all DNS servers, it translates human-readable domain names, such as www.zdnet.com, into IP addresses. It's also used in almost all Linux and ...

A security researcher has reported a serious vulnerability in BIND 9, the software widely used in the Internet’s DNS addressing system. Users of the software, which include ISPs and large companies, ...

The zone files can be transferred via FTP from BIND servers to Win2K DNS servers. In this scenario, the administrator can FTP the forward and reverse zone files from the Unix server (db.xxx files ...

The Internet Systems Consortium (ISC) has released an advisory outlining a trio of vulnerabilities that could impact the safety of DNS systems. This week, the organization said the vulnerabilities ...

Users are advised to upgrade to Bind 9.4 as a vulnerability in Bind 8 could misdirect users to fraudulent sites even if users typed in the correct URL A security researcher has found a serious ...

Attackers have started exploiting a flaw in the most widely used software for the DNS (Domain Name System), which translates domain names into IP addresses. Last week, a patch was issued for the ...

A group of experts has released an open-source alternative to the BIND DNS server software that boasts higher performance and better security than BIND. The new DNS server — dubbed Unbound 1.0 — is ...