Re: small dns daemon / forwarder ?
I liked it. Some graphical clicker-clacker configuration tool
alike "BIND for dummies" might be nice to have, indeed.
What this has to do with debian-sparc escapes me.
Steffen
foo_bar_baz_boo-deb@yahoo.com wrote:
>That rant was absolutely hilarious!
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>--- Andrew Hicox <andrew@hicox.com> wrote:
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>>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
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>>prompted my to investigate BIND alternatives, is that named just goes
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>>absolutely nuts when it can't find a root server, and that happens
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>>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
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>>of having category lame-servers { null; }; in named.conf)
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