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System Administration: Another Step toward the BIND (Linux Journal)System Administration: Another Step toward the BIND (Linux Journal)Posted Jul 25, 2006 13:32 UTC (Tue) by mattmelton (subscriber, #34842)Parent article: System Administration: Another Step toward the BIND (Linux Journal)
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
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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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