On Tue, Jul 24, 2001 at 02:16:57PM -0500, Phil Brutsche wrote: > A long time ago, in a galaxy far, far way, someone said... > > > Isn't that like swatting a fly with a sledgehammer? > > In a way it's either that or use non-free (in the GPL sense) software that > has gratuitous (and sometimes incompatible) extensions to the DNS spec. I'd have appreciated it if you'd included the text below *before* your comment ... I in no way said the choice was between BIND9 or djbdns. You said that. I hear over and over again that djbdns violates the "spec" ... as far as I've seen, this is not true: djbdns tends to follow the RFC but often "violates" common practice as established by BIND. BTW, check out who's been extensively involved with BIND. Check out who's been extensively involved with MAPS. Hmmm ... > > I'd at least check into one of the other free DNS servers before using > > BIND. > > Show us an alternative that's It's *my* job to do this? :) > 1) ready for production use http://www.maradns.org says the authoritative server is beta quality; I've heard others say it works fine. I cannot speak about its reliability since I haven't used it yet. Already packaged. "apt-cache search" is your friend. http://sourceforge.net/projects/customdns/ is something I'd like to look at, though its readiness has got to be suspect :) Downloading it now ... I know I've heard of at least one more project but I can't find it on Sourceforge. (BTW, why does Sourceforge use Javascript links? They don't work in Konquerer ...) > 2) is not djbdns. In my opinion this boils down to a religious issue: some hate Dan Bernstein (and by extension his software), and I hate BIND because it's a massive bloated buggy pile of crap. I don't think either of us will convince the other that he is incorrect :) Cheers, -- Nathan Norman - Staff Engineer | A good plan today is better Micromuse Ltd. | than a perfect plan tomorrow. mailto:nnorman@micromuse.com | -- Patton
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