BIND 9.3 Offers More Security, Support

In a move to address corporate risk management rules for critical operations, the Internet Systems Consortium (ISC) is offering a range of commercial support for its open source Domain Name Server tool BIND as part of new security features in the latest version of BIND 9.3. BIND, an acronym that stands for Berkeley Internet Name Domain, is an open source implementation of the DNS protocol and is in use in more than 75 percent of the nameservers on the Internet.

DNS, and BIND in particular, has been the target of frequent attacks in recent years. The new version hopes to address this with the addition of numerous significant security enhancements.

Among the security enhancements in BIND 9.3 is DNS Security (DNSSEC) code based on the Internet Engineering Task Force's (IETF) draft specifications.

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