Re: small dns daemon / forwarder ?
yeah okay, it dosen't have speficially to do with debian-sparc, but I'm on
this list already, and technically I AM looking for something that'll run
on debian-sparc, so yeah it's kind of tangentially related.
If you wanna flame me for posting to the wrong forum, go ahead, I'm
wearing my asbestos undies, so I can take the heat ;-)
I could not disagree more. There is no need for a GUI to configure BIND
for dummies. BIND is what it is, and I'm sure it's great for running big
public DNS servers. It's decidedly overkill for what I was trying to do
though, and I was just attempting to poll a group of people that decidedly
includes a large number of people experienced at running debian-sparc
systems like my own for suggestions.
thank you for your patience,
-Andrew ;-)
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On Tue, 10 May 2005, Steffen Moeller wrote:
> 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!
> >
> >--- 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)
> >>
> >>
> >
> >
> >
> >
>
>
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