Hello Travis,
linux box setup and transferred the domain to that. The nice thing about using dos for your networking, (which someone else said way more eloquently than I could, paraphrasing here), is that since dos doesn't have a native tcp/ip stack, if the app dies, so does the tcp/ip connection, so you don't have to worry about folks exploiting your system to get in via backdoors. or buffer overruns.
Actually I think it is a bit of a misconception to say that (MS-)DOS is secure because it lacks kernel-space device drivers. The reality with MS-DOS and compatibles, is that there is not much of a security boundary between the system kernel and user processes. This is exactly why one can write a network device driver as a user application --- because a user process often has unlimited access to the PC hardware anyway, just like the system kernel (!). Anyway, other than that DOS programs tend to be simpler and smaller, I do not really see much that makes DOS intrinsically "more secure" than more modern systems. There has been a lot of work done in the last few decades or so towards hardening modern OSes --- e.g. there is work to harden the Linux kernel, from kernel versions 2.x all the way to the current 5.x (https://www.openwall.com/linux/). At least some of this work will need to be adapted to programs running on DOS, if they need to be truly secure. Thank you! -- https://gitlab.com/tkchia :: https://github.com/tkchia _______________________________________________ Freedos-user mailing list Freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-user
