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System Administration: Another Step toward the BIND (Linux Journal)
Linux Journal looks
at the named.conf file used by BIND. "As we've said previously,
Linux distributions come with BIND, an application that runs the vast
majority of all DNS servers. BIND runs a service or daemon called
named. It's primary configuration file is called named.conf. (We assume
that you know that Linux services or daemon's have configuration files
associated with them.)"
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System Administration: Another Step toward the BIND (Linux Journal) Posted Jul 25, 2006 13:32 UTC (Tue) by mattmelton (subscriber, #34842) [Link] While not directly related to the article I feel that every now and again, I have to need to mention either tinydns or qmail. Today is one of them.
BIND is nice, but having used BIND in a production envionment, and tinydns in a development environment, I found that tinydns easily out performed BIND in terms of usability/configurability, security and performance. Since my liberation from the "old way" to the new, I have used tinydns where possible as BIND has met all my production environment needs.
While not opensource, it almost is.
Tinydns is writen by DJ Bernstien - LWN members should know who he is :D
Hth,
Matt
System Administration: Another Step toward the BIND (Linux Journal) Posted Jul 27, 2006 20:46 UTC (Thu) by shane (subscriber, #3335) [Link] Dan Bernstein himself is kind enough to provide a page listing lots ofuseful features that BIND supports that djbdns does not and probably never will:
http://cr.yp.to/djbdns/knowles.html
(At the very end, after the paranoid ranting.)
TSIG is important for administrators who do not want clear-text zone
Without TCP or EDNS0, you cannot have a DNS response bigger than 512
Speaking of IPv6, it looks like djbdns won't actually listen on an IPv6
FWIW, ISC is putting together a road-map for the next major version of
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