Re: [ILUG] DHCP and DNS.

From: Rick Moen (rick at domain linuxmafia.com)
Date: Tue 19 Jun 2001 - 06:39:39 IST


begin Gary Coady quotation:

> Basically, sendmail and bind are the untrustworthy bloated systems with
> lots of legacy cruft (to my perhaps unjust opinion).

s/bind/bind v. 8.x/

ISC knew a couple of years ago that the BIND v. 8 codebase was hopeless.
That's when they started the rewritten-from-scratch 9.x project
(http://www.isc.org/products/BIND/bind9.html). Which is now at 9.1.2,
and is now seasoned enough to rely on.

However, I'd use one of the other projects I mentioned for minimal-role
setups, especially caching-only. Just because of the bit about simpler
code and security.

On my main machine, I need a full-function nameserver, but am
considering Yaku-DNS or MaraDNS on a secondary box, and friends have
reported pdnsd to be excellent for workstations.

-- 
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Rick Moen    soaked in blood.  But, if you live your life right, that kind
rick at domain linuxmafia.com   of thing doesn't have to stop there."  -- Dana Gould


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