Re: DNS for beginners?

[Chuck Yerkes <chuck+obsd@2004.snew.com>]

Quoting Jeff Derbyshire (jeffd@caicorp.com):
> Gary,
> 
> I have never had a problem with djbdns.  Its simple to set up and fast 
> in name resolution.

Except for IPv6, incremental zone transfers, any sort
of authenticated zone transfer, hell, zone transfers without
scp, and a lack of DDNS if using it internally.

Oh, and I can back BIND9 with a SQL or LDAP server on the
master rather than flat files if I want.

It's fast; it's really fast for caching and running internal.

A one of the secondaries I use runs it.  It's sort of a PITA in
taht when I make a change, the BIND machines get a NOTIFY and pull
the zone within seconds.  The DJBDNS box gets around to it in a
few hours.  And we don't have a relationship where either of us
have access to the others machines for copying files over.

> I run it on both OpenBSD and linux boxes.
> He also has some General DNS links.
> http://cr.yp.to/djbdns.html
> 
> It takes me about an hour to install and setup.