BIND worm (was: DHCP Servers)

[Dustin Mollo]

On Fri, Mar 23, 2001 at 04:46:42PM -0800, Brad Cox wrote:
> On Fri, Mar 23, 2001 at 02:27:48PM -0800, Colin Marquardt wrote:
> > > I am curious if anyone as used a dhcp server other than the one from ISC
> > 
> > Speaking of ISC, here is an alert for those who didn't hear about it
> > yet:
> 
> It's stuff like this that spawned my question.

Hmmm...  Maybe I'm weird here, but normally people don't run DHCP servers on
places that are "publically accessable" in which case, if there was an
exploit for the ISC DHCP server, you wouldn't care.

Then there are those who don't care about firewalls, in which case, you
might want to look for an alternative.  The only alternate DHCP server I
know of is the Moreton Bay DHCP server (http://www.moretonbay.com/dhcpd/). 
It's not what I'd call full featured, but it's intended purpose is much
different than that of ISC's.  The Moreton Bay server was written as part of
their embeded firewall product and is small and fast.  It also lacks some of
the features I was needing.  It's worth a look-see.

We run the ISC DHCP here at our offices and it's dandy...haven't finished
working on the web interface that I'd like to setup, but at least I have the
configuration file in an easily parseable format so I can later go back and
manipulate it.

-Dustin