On 30 Jan 2001, at 1:03, Kurt Seifried wrote:

> them it's secure". No, Qmail, as it ships from DJB, is a pain in the
> ass :P. I've tried to move to it several times (long ago), and tested
> it more recently, and I've never liked the results (and I get paid to
> spend my time on things like this).

Hi,

I have to do with a couple of servers, each with a couple of
thousand mail users. Using qmail I have not found any security
problem.

Serving about 30-50 domains with Djbdns is no problem. I found no
real advantages compared to bind but that I had to update bind
about 3 to 4 times the last 6 months to keep somewhat secure.

I like the advantages of bind series 9 (threads, somewhat of virtual
load balancing). Some of these features are not available for all
OSs I use, specialy the lack of threads on some BSDs require to
use bind 9 with --disable-threads. Design decisions of the ext2
filesystem prohibit the use of Linux on systems that need some level
of integrity.

Some time ago a couple of lawyers I would call friends put together
a 200 page document about the BSD vs. GPL vs. DJB licences,
probably I could dig it out. DJBs licence is optimal for security
compareable to the licence sun put solaris under.

mike

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