[Techtalk] O BIND gurus: authoritative v caching and root zones and stuff

[Carla Schroder]

On Sunday 22 August 2004 2:48 pm, Kathryn Andersen wrote:
> On Sun, Aug 22, 2004 at 10:37:47AM -0700, Carla Schroder wrote:
> > OK I'm back with another installment of 'DNS Barbie says BIND is hard!'
> 
> Is there any particular reason you *have* to use BIND?
> Other nameservers may be simpler to configure.  No, I'm not saying you
> have to use djbdns (I know there are many hard feelings in the community
> about this person having a "shared source licence" and not an open
> source or Free Software licence) but that's not the only alternative.
> I just set up a caching dns server with maradns yesterday (though I had
> to battle a bit with wvdial to stop it overwriting resolv.conf...)
> 

I use djbdns. tinydns is easy and sane. Except the root directory getting all 
cluttered up with djbdns directories. But aside from that, I like it a lot. 
Unfortunately I committed to writing a BIND howto. Why? Who knows. I lost my 
mind, perhaps. 

Here's a page with a whole boatload of different DNS servers:
http://www.linuxmafia.com/faq/Network_Other/dns-servers.html

I was going to say shitload, but I'm trying to behave more classier.


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