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Internet Systems Consortium Seeks Wider Input For BIND 10 60

joabj writes "The ISC is seeking some open source magic for the next version of the widely used BIND. Although the BIND is already open source, most of the work thus far done on the DNS server software has come from contractors, the government and Unix vendors. 'The goal is to move away from having BIND a heavily sponsored corporate product,' said BIND 10 manager Shane Kerr. Kerr is hoping that more eyes will equal fewer bugs, and that more users will go ahead and implement the features they've been requesting themselves. BIND 10, due by the end of the year, features a new modular architecture, one designed to circumvent many of the security woes that have bedeviled BIND 9."

Comment Re:Terms of Service Enforcement? (Score 1) 125

Twitter is looking into it? Wow. I'm overwhelmed.

I've been at several conferences recently at which Twitter was being used as a live back-channel for the presentations. Obvious spam-bots flooded the hashtags so we turned it off. Now, I don't even bother :(

Seriously, what sort of sample size does Twitter need to develop some algorithms?

Comment Re:Things I look for (Score 1) 456

I had a couple of disastrous experiences with Bluehost, including having accounts suspended for generic ToS violation without notification and SSH access suspended because they'd changed their policies. They now require a copy of some photo identification, which is fine, but they didn't notify me and simply disabled access. Not good when sites are being published and backed up via rsync.

I've since discovered that even after I'd closed my account with them, they kept my personal and domain details despite being expressly instructed to remove them.

It depends on how much privacy and reliability mean to you, I guess.

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