BIND version 9 is a major rewrite of nearly all aspects of the underlying BIND
architecture. Some of the important features of BIND 9 are:
DNS Security: DNSSEC (signed zones), TSIG (signed DNS requests)
IP version 6: Answers DNS queries on IPv6 sockets, IPv6 resource records (AAAA)
Experimental IPv6 Resolver Library
DNS Protocol Enhancements: IXFR, DDNS, Notify, EDNS0
Improved standards conformance
Views: One server process can provide multiple "views" of the DNS namespace,
e.g. an "inside" view to certain clients, and an "outside" view to others.
Multiprocessor Support
See the CHANGES file for more information on new features.
The Xen Project hypervisor is an open-source type-1 or baremetal hypervisor,
which makes it possible to run many instances of an operating system or indeed
different operating systems in parallel on a single machine (or host). The Xen
Project hypervisor is the only type-1 hypervisor that is available as open
source. It is used as the basis for a number of different commercial and open
source applications, such as: server virtualization, Infrastructure as a Service
(IaaS), desktop virtualization, security applications, embedded and hardware
appliances
The Xen Project hypervisor is an open-source type-1 or baremetal hypervisor,
which makes it possible to run many instances of an operating system or indeed
different operating systems in parallel on a single machine (or host). The Xen
Project hypervisor is the only type-1 hypervisor that is available as open
source. It is used as the basis for a number of different commercial and open
source applications, such as: server virtualization, Infrastructure as a Service
(IaaS), desktop virtualization, security applications, embedded and hardware
appliances
Dovecot is an open source IMAP and POP3 email server for Linux/UNIX-like
systems, written with security primarily in mind. Dovecot is an excellent
choice for both small and large installations. It's fast, simple to set up,
requires no special administration and it uses very little memory.
Dovecot is high-performing, self-optimizing, self-healing, and easily
extensible. It includes IMAP4rev1 and POP3 support. IPv6, SSL and TLS are
supported. It supports multiple commonly used IMAP extensions, including SORT,
THREAD and IDLE.
SNMP++v3.x is a C++ API which supports SNMP v1, v2c, and v3.
SNMP++v3.x is based on SNMP++v2.8 from HP* and extends it by support
for SNMPv3 and a couple of bug fixes.
The v3 support to SNMP++ and AGENT++ is provided by courtesy of
Jochen Katz (katz07@agentpp.com).
SNMP++v3.x extends the original SNMP++v2.8 by the following:
# SNMPv3 including User Security Model (USM) with:
# MD5 and SHA authentication
# DES and IDEA privacy
# Thread-safety
# Bug-fixes
grepcidr can be used to filter a list of IP addresses against one
or more Classless Inter-Domain Routing (CIDR) specifications, or
arbitrary networks specified by an address range. As with grep,
there are options to invert matching and load patterns from a file.
grepcidr is capable of comparing thousands or even millions of IPs
to networks with little memory usage and in reasonable computation
time.
grepcidr has endless uses in network software, including: mail
filtering and processing, network security, log analysis, and many
custom applications.
Unworkable is a BSD-licensed BitTorrent implementation
for UNIX written from-scratch in C. It uses libevent
for scalable asynchronous networking and the mmap()
system call for local data access. Some of the goals of
the project include (in no particular order) high code
quality, efficiency, simplicity and security.
Unworkable is still in an early stage of development,
and is far behind most other BitTorrent implementations.
However, it is usable for some basic things and the
source code is quite minimal(4,000 lines of C compared
to rTorrent's 40,000+ of C++).
Bitflu is a free BitTorrent client. The client was written in Perl and
is designed to run as a daemon (7x24h , like mlnet) on Linux, *BSD and
maybe even OSX.
* Multiple downloads
* Designed to run as a daemon/No GUI: You can connect to the client
using the telnet or HTTP interface
* Security: The client can chroot itself and drop privileges
* Bandwith shaping (currently only upload)
* Crash-Proof design: Crashes or a full filesystem will never corrupt
your downloads again :-)
* Non-Threading/(almost)Non-Forking design: All connections are handled
in non-blocking state using a dynamic select loop
GNUnet is an anonymous, distributed, reputation-based network. A first
service implemented on top of the networking layer allows censorship-
resistant file-sharing.
Our goal is to provide an infrastructure for secure networking. All
communication in GNUnet is authenticated and encrypted. The reputation
model makes attacks on the network harder. GNUnet does not rely on any
centralized services.
While our goals are similar to projects like Freenet, Gnutella, MojoNation
and others, we hope to provide a superior combination of features for users
that value security more than efficiency.
AFS is a distributed filesystem product, pioneered at Carnegie Mellon
University and supported and developed as a product by Transarc Corporation
(now IBM Pittsburgh Labs). It offers a client-server architecture for
federated file sharing and replicated read-only content distribution,
providing location independence, scalability, security, and transparent
migration capabilities. AFS is available for a broad range of heterogeneous
systems including UNIX, Linux, MacOS X, and Microsoft Windows.
IBM branched the source of the AFS product, and made a copy of the source
available for community development and maintenance. They called the
release OpenAFS.