Re: securing bind

Craig H. Rowland (crowlandpsionic.com)
Wed, 17 Nov 1999 12:40:40 -0600 (CST)

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> can anyone point me to a good document, how i can secure bind? i searched
> the web, but couldn't find anything useful.

This is kind of a vague question depending on what you mean by securing
BIND. The first thing you should do is chroot() it though (IMHO). I wrote
some documents a while back that explain how to do this for version 8.x:

http://www.psionic.com/papers/dns

Adam Shostack has instructions for BIND 4.x on solaris too:

http://www.homeport.org/~adam/dns.html

-- Craig

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