Tip: Personal DNS server for Windows XP free !

Danny Mayer mayer at gis.net
Sat Jan 4 18:23:30 UTC 2003


At 11:34 PM 1/1/03, Skybuck Flying wrote:
>"Danny Mayer" <mayer at gis.net> wrote in message
>news:aud057$ag2t$1 at isrv4.isc.org...
> >
> > At 07:23 AM 12/25/02, Pete Ehlke wrote:
> >
> > >On Sat, Dec 21, 2002 at 11:50:48PM +0100, Skybuck Flying wrote:
> > > >
> > > > Since bind 9.2.1 wasn't working on Windows XP and is difficult to
>setup for
> > > > newbs and pro's via textfiles and search for a special dns server
> > > > for windows xp :)
> > > >
> > > > I found and just installed this one and it works great :)
> > > >
> > > > ( I had to first deinstall bind though :) )
> > > >
> > > > Check it out:
> > > >
> > > > http://www.ntcanuck.com/
> > > >
> > > > It's free ! :)
> > > >
> > > > But is it secure ? :)
> > > >
> > >Don't use this thing. There was recently a long discussion here about
> > >the author's somewhat ill-considered decision to save the cache to disk
> > >between invocations. It came out during that discussion that the real
> > >purpose behind BIND-PE seems to be to subvert the root servers by
> > >seeding BIND-PE's hints file with every hare-braned "alternate root"
> > >server set that the author has ever heard of.
> >
> > There's a second problem with the installation: it doesn't turn off the
>DNS
> > Cache Client Service
>
>Do you mean the Windows XP DNS client ?

Yes.

>I turned that service off manually.
>
>I switch back to using my ISP's DNS server to save CPU time on my computer,
>so BIND PE is now disabled :)
>
>When the ISP's DNS server fails I can always switch back to BIND PE :)

I have no idea if BIND-PE requires it. I suspect not.

>To weird thing is I forgot (?) to enable Windows XP DNS Client.
>
>And yet DNS is working fine... weird huh ? :)

No, the service is not required. I always turn it off on the machines that
I use. It should have no affect in getting DNS records.

Danny
> >. This means you have two levels of caching making
> > it much more difficult to recover from cache poisoning attacks, assuming
> > that individual users a) even know what that is and b) has sufficient
> > knowledge to figure out what's wrong.
> >
> > Danny
> >
> > >As Duncan Campbell recently said:
> > >
> > >         a structured, heirarchical, distributed database.
> > >         a beautiful thing. don't break it.
> > >
> > >BIND-PE breaks it. Don't use it.
> >
> >
>



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