djbdns
Sign in to saveThe djbdns software package is a DNS implementation. It was created by Daniel J. Bernstein in response to his frustrations with repeated security holes in the widely used BIND DNS software. As a challenge, Bernstein offered a $1000 prize for the first person to find a security hole in djbdns, which was awarded in March 2009 to Matthew Dempsky.
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- Instance of
- free software
- Named after
- Domain Name Server
- Developer
- Daniel J. Bernstein
- Official website
- cr.yp.to/djbdns.html
- Has use
- Domain Name Server
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- operating system
- Unix-like operating system
- implementation of
- Domain Name Server
- programmed in
- C
- copyright status
- public domain
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The djbdns software package is a DNS implementation. It was created by Daniel J. Bernstein in response to his frustrations with repeated security holes in the widely used BIND DNS software. As a challenge, Bernstein offered a $1000 prize for the first person to find a security hole in djbdns, which was awarded in March 2009 to Matthew Dempsky.
, djbdns's tinydns component was the second most popular DNS server in terms of the number of domains for which it was the authoritative server, and third most popular in terms of the number of DNS hosts running it.
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