'succesful' nsupdate of remote server not persistent across nameserver restart?

Matthew Pounsett matt at conundrum.com
Mon Apr 25 18:33:51 UTC 2016


On Monday, 25 April 2016, <jasonsu at mail-central.com> wrote:

>
>
> On Mon, Apr 25, 2016, at 10:58 AM, Matthew Pounsett wrote:
> > It's not clear to me why one would want to destroy/rebuild the chroot
> every
> > time you restart the process.
>
> Well, here
>
> (1) Because I inherited it this way, and
> (2) The notes' quoted examples did that too, and
> (3) I'd not yet gotten any/good advice NOT to (security?)


Unless you have a clear reason to do it (perhaps there's some security
consideration I haven't thought of) it seems to me it's unnecessary
complexity that would lead to problems just like this.

>
> TBH, I'm not even sure whether "these days", chroot is still recommended.
> Apparmor or Docker instead? Is privsep taken care of in current bind so we
> don't have to worry about it anymore (e.g., the openntpd vs ntpd case)?
> I'm not clear on it.


Although BIND 9 has never had a remote code execution exploit that I'm
aware of, it's still advisable to run it in a chroot environment.
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