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Re: djbdns: An alternative to BIND

  • From: Niek
  • Date: Fri Apr 08 22:19:45 2005 
On 4/9/2005 4:03 AM +0100, Suresh Ramasubramanian wrote:

No IXFR, no automatic notification of bind slaves (you get to run a
separate notify script) ...

No RFC requires a specfic system of notification.
Seperate notify scripts are ok, rsync is even better!
Oh wait, does bind support rsync ?


But yes, it is far easier to use, consumes very low amounts of memory
and makes an excellent local resolver cache e&oe no roundrobin DNS
without a patch (as in it returns all the A records in the same order
every time, whereas bind does this in a different order ...)

Bind should patent this.
No v6 support without a patch either
Oh yes, patch, patch ... welcome to patching hell if you run qmail or
any other djb ware :)
Yeah we tech folk hate patching.

As I mentioned earlier, djb - non-djb is a religion thing:
rfc-wise, feature-wise (bind supports something, tinydns should too).

Niek Baakman
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