RE: A rookie question on BIND &/| name servers [OT]

[OpenBSD-misc <OpenBSD-misc@dataconnection.com>]

If there is, I'd love to hear it.  I suspect that people who
don't like Dan, don't like his software.  Planet Bernstein
can seem a strange place if you are raised on bind, inetd
 and sendmail.  And in truth he can come over as a pretty 
unfriendly guy.  Perhaps it's fatigue at answering questions
 he thinks he's answered a zillion times before.  Fortunately
there is a thriving industry of support pages for his stuff,
e.g. www.lifewithdjbdns.org (take a bow, Henning Brauer!),
 www.djbdns.org, etc.

Anyway, whilst I don't always find his attitude very 
endearing, I have no reason to fault his DNS software.
Frankly, the combination of djbdns and daemontools on obsd
blows BIND out of the water.  And if you do run into that
256K limit, well you could legitimately raise it with DJB,
or even fix the source yourself if he was unhelpful.

If you want to continue on this thread you might wanna 
move it to the DJBDNS mailing list. See www.djbdns.org 
for info. 

s 

-----Original Message-----
From: J.C. Roberts [mailto:unknown@abac.com]
Sent: 01 March 2001 13:59
To: Petter Adsen
Cc: misc@openbsd.org
Subject: Re: A rookie question on BIND &/| name servers


On Thu, 01 Mar 2001 13:50:36 +0100, you wrote:

[snip]
I've been doing some reading on "djbdns" and "dnscache" by Dan
Bernstien (qmail) and you're not the first person to mention not
trusting his code... -Is there some piece of bugtraq history that I
haven't been able to find?
[snip]