ZDNet Dictionary Definition
- Bind
- (1) To link subroutines in a program. Applications are often built with the help of many standard routines or object classes from a library, and large programs may be...
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- Cache poisoning flaw is death knell for bind 8
- Cache poisoning flaw is death knell for BIND 8One more reason not to use LinuxJust ignore the fact that this has nothing to do with Linux and that Bind 9 has been available since Sept 2000.SorryThat was an attempt at humor.You make no sense."Dont use linux.. wait.. ignore the fact...
- Tags: Domain names, UNIX, OPEN SOURCE, Operating systems, Linux, BIND 8, BIND
- Discussion threads 2007-09-05
- Cache poisoning flaw is death knell for bind 8
- The Internet Software Consortium has pulled the plug on support for Version 8 of the BIND (Berkeley Internet Name Domain) DNS implementation after the discovery of a serious vulnerability that could lead to cache poisoning attacks. The flaw, publicly discussed in a paper by Trustee's Amit...
- Tags: BIND, Internet Software Consortium, Flaw, ISC, BIND 9, Ryan Naraine
- Blog posts 2007-09-04
- RPC DNS exploit can compromise your whole company
- RPC DNS exploit can compromise your whole companyInsert Bash Microsoft Statement BelowAlthough BIND and others have had their share of DNS problems, I know the Zealots are aching to comment on the poor design of Microsoft's DNS.Restart DNS serviceStopping and restarting the DNS service enables the registry hack and blocks...
- Tags: Domain names, NETWORKING, SECURITY, DNS, RPC, BIND, perimiter firewall, RPC DNS, internal network, DMZ-Server, DNS Service, whole company, network, firewall
- Discussion threads 2007-04-18
- DNS and bind: Security
- In July 1997, during two periods of several days, users around the Internet who typed www.internic.net into their web browsers thinking they were going to the Inter-NIC's web site instead ended up at a web site belonging to the AlterNIC. (The Alter-NIC runs an alternate set of root nameservers that...
- Tags: Security, DNS, BIND, O'Reilly Media Inc., Web Site, Web Site Development, Domain Names, Web Technology, Web Servers, Channel Management, Internet, Marketing
- Book chapters 2006-05-01
- DNS servers--an Internet Achilles heel
- DNS servers--an Internet Achilles heelDNS servers--an Internet Achilles heelWe only have linux to blame for this. Since zdnet talkbackers always tell me that the internet is run on linux, it only makes sense that linux is the culprit. From this day forward I suggest a worldwide ban on...
- Tags: Domain names, NETWORKING, Lazyness, Internet, DNS, BIND, DNS server, server
- Discussion threads 2005-08-03
- Top 10 Linux/UNIX threats
- The SANS Institute in cooperation with the FBI's National Infrastructure Protection Center just published its listing of the most common IT security exploits for Linux/Unix systems. Leading the pack: BIND (Berkeley Internet Name Domain) exploits, which succeed because administrators fail to upgrade BIND to more secure versions or are running the BIND daemon ("named"). Here are...
- Tags: BIND
- Blog posts 2004-11-23
Additional Resources
- Traditional software licensing: Why you pay more and a look at your options
- It's hard to believe that some of the most profitable software companies in the world--Oracle, Microsoft and SAP--are sitting on a licensing model that is untenable in the long run and will increasingly irk customers. But there may be a revolution in the cards that could tip the balance of...
- Tags: Software, Software-as-a-service, Open Source, Software Company, Margin, Tools & Techniques, Software As A Service (SaaS), Management, Emerging Technologies, Larry Dignan
- Blog posts 2008-04-11
- The future, reusable paper
- The future, reusable paperReusable PaperReusable paper is a technology long overdue. Let's save the trees and the large amounts of energy that manufacturing gobbles up.RE: The future, reusable paperI see many uses for this technique.New subject: The other day I heard a guy on the weather channel say...
- Tags: Copiers, Printers, reusable paper, recycling
- Discussion threads 2008-04-09
- Microsoft-Yahoo-Google: The vicious antitrust circle
- Microsoft-Yahoo-Google: The vicious antitrust circleMicrosoft-Yahoo-Google: The vicious antitrust circleThere is no denying that Microsoft is in the right here. Yahoo screwed itself by making a deal with the devil. I hope the authorities hit Google very hard because of this.RE: Microsoft-Yahoo-Google: The vicious antitrust circlethis is relay bad,...
- Tags: Corporate law, SECURITY, Microsoft-Yahoo-Google, vicious antitrust, antitrust, Google Inc., Yahoo! Inc., Microsoft Corp.
- Discussion threads 2008-04-09
- News to know: AMD; IT spending; Google; Microsoft Mesh; ULPCs
- Notable headlines: Mary Jo Foley: Google App Engine: When will Microsoft field a competitor? Garett Rogers: Google announces App Engine: Should Amazon worry? Michael Krigsman: Heathrow T5 failure: What really happened Larry Dignan: AMD: Sales weak; Layoffs on tap ...
- Tags: Google Inc., Hewlett-Packard Co., Jason O'Grady, IT-spending, Microsoft Corp., Advanced Micro Devices Inc., Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA), Microsoft Windows, Printers, Fuel Cells, Microsoft Windows Vista (Longhorn), Notebooks, Open Source, Web Services, Enterprise Software, Software, Operating Systems, Hardware, Peripherals, Emerging Technologies, Notebooks & Tablets, Larry Dignan
- Blog posts 2008-04-08
- As SOA hype turns five, IBM turns to Smart SOA Social Network to bind communities of users
- The global WebSphere ecology has trooped to Las Vegas this week for the IBM Impact 2008 conference, with a kick-off rally of sorts in the MGM Grand arena this morning. I saw Fleetwood Mac here at a Comdex, must have been 12 years ago. IBM has sure...
- Tags: SOA, IBM Corp., WebSphere Ecology, PT, Smart SOA Social Network, Lotus Connections, Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA), Web Services, Middleware, Enterprise Software, Software, Dana Gardner
- Blog posts 2008-04-07
- Microsoft licenses Adobe Flash Lite, turns up heat under Apple and iPhone?
- Look for Flash applications to be coming to more mobile devices near you, just not an iPhone. Adobe Systems announced today that Microsoft has licensed Adobe's Flash Lite software to enable Flash-compatible content in the Internet Explorer Mobile browser. This will mean that people using those...
- Tags: Apple iPhone, Adobe Systems Inc., Apple Inc., Microsoft Corp., Advertising & Promotion, Microsoft Windows, Handhelds, Operating Systems, Marketing, Software, Hardware, Dana Gardner
- Blog posts 2008-03-17
- Ray Ozzie bringing 'syncromesh' to the Web
- Guest post: Dan Farber, Between the Lines alumnus and founding editor-in-chief of ZDNet, is editor-in-chief of CNET News.com. Ray Ozzie has a history of trying to break through software and usability barriers. With Lotus Notes, he and his team spent years creating the underlying client/server collaboration technology to...
- Tags: Web, Device, Ray Ozzie, Microsoft Corp., Mesh, FeedSynch, Synchronization, Channel Management, Groupware, Servers, Marketing, Enterprise Software, Software, Hardware, Dan Farber
- Blog posts 2008-03-06
- Nanotechnology-based clean hydrogen for cars
- Nanotechnology-based clean hydrogen for carsI don't get it[i]The most interesting part of the story is that the existing gas stations would not need to be modified to distribute hydrogen.[/i]I thought H2 is in gas form at normal temperature and pressure.How can they use an existing fuel pump to pump H2...
- Tags: Liquid Nitrogen, hydrogen tank, nanotechnology, Combustion, hydrogen, O2 Plc.
- Discussion threads 2008-02-27
- Nanotechnology-based chicken feed?
- In order to keep healthy the 200 million chicken raised in South Carolina -- and the humans who ate them -- Clemson University researchers are using nanoparticles. They call this intelligent chicken feed. They have built 'nanoparticles that mimic the host cell surface and lock to targeted pathogens. The particles...
- Tags: Clemson University, Professor, Patent, Nanoparticle, Tzeng, Nanotechnology, Healthcare, Emerging Technologies, Roland Piquepaille
- Blog posts 2008-02-23
- Supreme Court declines warrantless wiretapping case
- Supreme Court declines warrantless wiretapping caseThe story just says it all.It's really getting hard to hold my head up and meet foreign peoples eyes when I tell them I'm an American.RE: Supreme Court declines warrantless wiretapping caseThe stench of the apologists is just beginning to waffle! The love of these...
- Tags: SECURITY, Top-Secret Information, warrantless wiretapping case, wiretapping case, Islamic
- Discussion threads 2008-02-20
- Easy Fly-Out Menu for ASP.NET (msi)
- Easy Menu is an advanced data driven fly-out menu for ASP.NET. The build-in ASP.NET fly-out menu lacks some important features and styling options which are all included in Easy Menu. You can bind the fly-out menu to your favorite data source including hierarchical data sources, data sets and LINQ tables,...
- Tags: Menu, Microsoft ASP.NET, Sequentum, Easy Menu, .Net, Middleware, Software Development, Software/Web Development, Enterprise Software, Software
- Software downloads 2008-02-20
- Endlessly+extending+copyright
- Endlessly+extending+copyrightNot all evil is created equal[i]No they are still pirates, and advertize their similarity by using the name "The Pirates Bay."[/i]They didn't pick the terms.[i]So they don't murder people. Both the older variety and the modern version come from a fundamental lack of respect for property rights.[/i]And I maintain that...
- Tags: Government, Performance management, Operational accounting, income, performance
- Discussion threads 2008-02-15
- Nanotechnology-based self-cleaning fabrics
- A recent American Chemical Society's Weekly PressPac briefly describes how Australian researchers have used nanotechnology to develop 'self-cleaning' wool and silk fabrics (scroll to article #4 in the PressPac). The researchers 'prepared wool fabrics with and without a nanoparticle coating composed of anatase titanium dioxide, a substance that is known...
- Tags: Silk, American Chemical Society, Fabric, Fiber, Nanotechnology, Network Technology, Semiconductors, Emerging Technologies, Networking, Hardware, Roland Piquepaille
- Blog posts 2008-02-12
- Yahoo rejects Microsoft's bid
- Yahoo rejects Microsoft's bidAnd if Google should step in to bidMS will go to the DOJ in the same response, . . . so Yahoo will need some different or differently backed yahoos to come in and raise the leaky ship before it takes on to much water, and AOL...
- Tags: Operational accounting, Microsoft Corp., Yahoo! Inc.
- Discussion threads 2008-02-11
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