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[ietf-clear] err less terse

2004-10-04 07:56:46
On Mon, 2004-10-04 at 09:34, James Couzens wrote:

BIND is I believe the most heavily deployed and flawed implementation of
the DNS protocol.  As time goes on its becoming more and more apparent
that the only individual without his head up his ass is conceivably
Daniel Bernstein.  I wish more people would simply write software which
is responsible for running core Internet technologies without all the
stupid whistles and utter crap.

Ahem, to ensure no one take what I've said personally or the wrong way,
please don't take it too literally.  Its an observation on my part and
by no means a passing of judgement upon developers, so if you've taken
it as such please accept my apologies, perhaps a less terse choice of
words would drive the point home.  

I feel quite strongly that the vast majority of software available is
bogged down with features.  What is a feature?  Well its certainly not
"functionality" related and thus its something that only adds bloat to
something.  Now rather than stating as I did I'll put it like this, how
many other pieces of software exist on the internet in the "core
Internet technology" arena that have not been exploited?  Neither qmail
nor tinydns have seen even one resultant in an elevation of privilege,
injection of data or anything even remotely close.  No other piece of
software can as far as I can tell state this.

My point!?  Surely there is something to glean from this.  So rather
than "all software is crap and everyone has their head where the sun
doesn't shine", "more focus needs to be placed upon security and
simplicity".

Cheers,

James

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James Couzens,
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