Re: small dns daemon / forwarder ?

[<foo_bar_baz_boo-deb@yahoo.com>]

That rant was absolutely hilarious!

--- Andrew Hicox <andrew@hicox.com> wrote:
> The problem is that BIND is a beast, and using it in this manner is 
> like trying to swat a fly with an ICBM. It's using a lot of CPU, and 
> it's a pain in the butt to configure. On top of that, and what's
> really 
> prompted my to investigate BIND alternatives, is that named just goes
> 
> absolutely nuts when it can't find a root server, and that happens
> from 
> time to time from my DSL line. When it can't talk to a root server, 
> named goes all cornolio and logs that fact like crazy, soaks the CPU
> on 
> the machine and fills up /var in like 20 minutes flat. (this in spite
> 
> of having category lame-servers { null; }; in named.conf)