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Operating BIND

Having read about the various attacks and risks associated with BIND, you may worry about the stability, security, or suitability of running BIND for a major enterprise. You should not. BIND is enterprise-class, production-quality software. Like all such software, whether open source or not, you must be aware of its weaknesses and guard against them. Consider that at least one of the .com nameservers runs BIND 9: if it can handle the load and stress of the .com zone, it can handle your zones.

Running BIND in chroot

BIND comes with the built-in ability to run in a chroot environment. You do not need to do much to configure a chroot environment properly for it. To make BIND run in a chroot environment, run it with the


  

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