System Administration: Another Step toward the BIND (Linux Journal) [LWN.net]

System Administration: Another Step toward the BIND (Linux Journal)

Posted Jul 27, 2006 20:46 UTC (Thu) by shane (subscriber, #3335)
In reply to: System Administration: Another Step toward the BIND (Linux Journal) by mattmelton
Parent article: System Administration: Another Step toward the BIND (Linux Journal)

Dan Bernstein himself is kind enough to provide a page listing lots of
useful 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
transfers, for instance.

Without TCP or EDNS0, you cannot have a DNS response bigger than 512
bytes. This becomes more important in a IPv6 world.

Speaking of IPv6, it looks like djbdns won't actually listen on an IPv6
address.

FWIW, ISC is putting together a road-map for the next major version of
BIND now (after 9.5... 9.4 is in alpha, and improves performance in a
number of ways. Is mostly code complete 9.5 will support gss-tsig,
allowing some limited interoperability with Microsoft's Kerberos
implementation, and much better server statistics.) One of the things I
think we'll see in that version is much easier administration.

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