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Re: Easiest Nameserver



On Mon, Jan 13, 2003 at 11:49:26AM -0500, Derrick 'dman' Hudson wrote:
> | and writing your "zone files" (which you'll have to do regardless of
> | what DNS software you which to use).
> 
> Technically this isn't true.  A DNS server isn't required to store the
> zones in the same format as bind.  djbdns comes to mind, as (IIRC) it
> stores the records as funkily named empty files in a certain
> directory.  This is not meant to start an ISC vs. DJB (vs. others)
> war, but merely to point out that different systems can choose to have
> a different admin interface.

Actually, djbdns stores zone info in a cdb database.

I haven't looked at my config in a while (I love that about djbdns)
but IIRC it's possible that a few config options are implemented using
"funkily named empty files in a certain directory".

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