[GLLUG] DNS Provider issues open hacking challenge

[Lani Meredith]

> http://news.zdnet.co.uk/itmanagement/0,1000000308,39760362,00.htm?s_cid=260
>
> Clearly having no understanding of how the internet works, the CEO of
> a big DNS providing company has declared that the fact that his
> software is closed-source makes it more secure.  Which, to the
> uninitiated, is a request for every black-hack hacker in the world to
> attack his machines.
>
> Karl, you on this yet?
>
> Clay

Interestingly, this is the same company that wrote BIND 9.
http://www.nominum.com/news/press/2000/nominum_releases_bind_9.php

Lani