Prossimo – Memory safety for the Internet's most critical infrastructure

Re:Prossimo – Memory safety for the Internet's most critical... by tptacek on Friday June 18, 2021 @06:16PM (#27555590)

A Rust or Go DNS server that served as a drop-in replacement for BIND or nsd, on the other hand, is a big win. :)

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Re:Prossimo – Memory safety for the Internet's most critical... by ageofzfarm on Friday June 18, 2021 @07:23PM (#27556141)

Many Chinese companies are building their own authoritative NS based on code from miekg/dns :) Writing one importing that library is really simple, we should do it more often in the West too.

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Re:Prossimo – Memory safety for the Internet's most critical... by tptacek on Friday June 18, 2021 @08:54PM (#27556790)

Right, I just ported our Rust DNS server (built with the equally excellent NLNet crate) to miekg/dns. It's great. But people tend to be writing "interesting" DNS servers, which is not the thing you actually need if you're trying to get rid of BIND and nsd; you need stuff that behaves exactly like BIND and nsd, just minus the memory corruption.

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