The BIND Forum and the maintenance of critical software

The BIND Forum and the maintenance of critical software

Posted Dec 13, 2002 23:53 UTC (Fri) by rickmoen (subscriber, #6943)
Parent article: The BIND Forum and the maintenance of critical software

Luckily, there are open-source alternatives to BIND (in addition to the proprietary djbdns and PowerDNS ones):

MaraDNS is a general-purpose, fast DNS server package (doing recursive, authoritative, and caching roles, plus fully supporting zone transfers): http://www.maradns.org/

pdnsd is a small caching-only DNS server with a disk-based cache, suitable for small networks and workstations: http://home.t-online.de/home/Moestl/

Dnsmasq is a small authoritative and caching DNS server for a group of NATted / IPmasqued machines (optionally pulling names from DHCP leases): http://www.thekelleys.org.uk/dnsmasq/

DNRD is a small caching-only DNS server for NAT / IPmasq networks: http://dnrd.nevalabs.org/

MyDNS is a MySQL-based authoritative and caching server (no recursive service) suitable for very large sites. In such roles, it's faster and more responsive than BIND9, even though the latter uses a RAM-based cache: http://mydns.bboy.net/

ldapdns implements the same idea, except out of an LDAP database. Again, much faster than BIND9: http://nimh.org/code/ldapdns/

GnuDIP is an authoritative server for Dynamic DNS: http://gnudip2.sourceforge.net/gnudip-www/

NSD is a high-performance authoritative-only daemon: http://www.nlnetlabs.nl/nsd/

CustomDNS is a authoritative-only daemon for both static addresses and its variant form of dynamic DNS: http://customdns.sourceforge.net/

lbnamed is a similar authoritative-only daemon for static and dynamic information, with a load-balancing multi-machine architecture: http://www.stanford.edu/~riepel/lbnamed/

Posadis is another fast authoritative-only daemon: http://posadis.sourceforge.net/

dents is another general-purpose DNS server, but is perenially unfinished: http://sourceforge.net/projects/dents/

Pliant DNS Server is another general-purpose DNS server, although it may not support zone transfers: http://pliant.cx/pliant/protocol/dns/

Yaku-NS is another small, fast general-purpose DNS server: http://www.kyuzz.org/antirez/ens.html

Rick Moen
rick@linuxmafia.com

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