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BIND 9 is an implementation of the Domain Name System (DNS) protocols. The named(8) daemon is an Internet Domain Name Server.
DNS Security Extensions (DNSSEC) provides data integrity, origin authentication and authenticated denial of existence to resolvers.
If a client requests DNSSEC records with the Checking Disabled …
Kingcope discovered and posted on Full-disclosure that the Run-Time Link-Editor (rtld) in recent FreeBSD versions has a dangerous bug. An attacker can trick rtld to accept a manipulated LD_PRELOAD environment variable even when executing setugid binaries like "ping" or "su".
The FreeBSD Security Officer Colin Percival reacted quckly with a …
FreeBSD 8.0 is available for download on the ftp servers. Please note that at the time as we are writing this, there's not yet an official statement on the FreeBSD website.
This release brings an overhauled USB stack, a new partition class called slices and NFSv4.
The old USB …
The FreeBSD Foundation announced pleasently the new funded FreeBSD HAST project.
The software will be a file system and software independant synchronous replication which operates on the block-level in a cluster environment. It works over TCP/IP and can use any GEOM providers. Pawel Dawidek has been awarded to implent …
The FreeBSD Quaterly Status Report for April-September 2009 is now online. It's always worth to have a look at it. For example there's a working port of Grand Central Dispatch, which Apple has released the source code for a few weeks ago. Or there is the libprocstat(3) project which …
