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On Sunday 26 April 2009 10:05:56 Daniel Iliev wrote: |
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> > Are there any other choices using Gentoo, other than |
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> > DJBDNS or bind-9 ? Thoughts? |
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> Hi, |
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> You might want to take a look at net-dns/maradns [1]. |
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> Lightweight, easy to configure, advertised as fastest and most secure. |
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> I personally love the feature/extension "FQDN4 record" which allows one |
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> to automatically set reverse resolving. |
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> [1] http://www.maradns.org/ |
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I've never heard of maradns, but there's always some clown around claiming to |
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be the "biggest, bestest, fastest, moreest". YMMV. "zero exploits discovered" |
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can also be due to nobody has bothered to examine the source code.... |
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djbdns and bind are OK for what James is looking at - they are well known, |
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easy to set up with plenty of folks around who can assist with issues. bind is |
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well-maintained too. |
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Just don't try run an auth server and a cache on the same server. That's a BAD |
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idea. Rather run your own auth server, secondary to a DNS provider of your |
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choice and use your ISPs cache servers for your caching needs (i.e. there's no |
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good reason to be doing this for yourself) |
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alan dot mckinnon at gmail dot com |
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