dbndns was a

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of the

djbdns The djbdns software package is a DNS implementation. It was created by Daniel J. Bernstein in response to his frustrations with repeated security holes in the widely used BIND DNS software. As a challenge, Bernstein offered a $1000 prize for the ...

software package, maintained by the

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, made possible by the release of djbdns to the public domain. The fork was created so as to add many common patches to djbdns. Most notably, this now includes

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support. Previously, it was necessary to get a special 'djbdns-installer' package that downloaded the djbdns source from the author's site and apply a patch, but the free software status means this is no longer necessary, and Debian can directly carry the source and patches, producing a redistributable binary deb package. This package had filtered through into

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. Dbndns is no longer maintained as part of the Debian distribution.

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