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Re: To the bind maintainer



* Martijn van Oosterhout said:

> > > Actually, I'm kinda confused about all this talk about running BIND on
> > > personal machines (notebooks?) and by newbies. Why on earth would you
> > > run BIND on a notebook[1]? Why on earth would a (relatively) new Linux
> > Caching nameserver with fast forwarder. Caching locally all the lookups you
> > make is sometimes quite desirable on dial-up connections.
> 
> >From looking at frshmeat, there seems to be many dns servers created
> for the sole purpose of caching results. Some even allow you to define
> zones.
Yup, it seems right.
 
> Maybe we need to get away from the idea that BIND is suitable for all
> situations.
Well, for many purposes bind is certainly too huge, maybe it's time for a
virtual dns-server package and several DNS daemons that serve various
purposes?

marek

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