[114669] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: ISP best practices
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Ben Cooper)
Thu May 21 12:00:45 2009
Date: Thu, 21 May 2009 16:59:27 +0100
From: Ben Cooper <ben@hns.net>
To: nanog@nanog.org
In-Reply-To: <20090521154751.9B7CD4C102C@ptcruiser.dragon.net>
Errors-To: nanog-bounces+nanog.discuss=bloom-picayune.mit.edu@nanog.org
If you want to go down the BIND route, I'd recommend using xname as a
frontend (http://source.xname.org/).
Paul E wrote:
> cmaurand> Check out www.powerdns.com as an alternative to bind. Its
> cmaurand> faster, more secure, does IPV6 and easier to maintain.
>
> This is purely opinion.
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> BIND has warts, just as any large piece of code in wide spread use and
> with lots of features will have. However, that's also one of its
> advantages. Lots of folks run it and know it and fix it when it breaks.
>
> Works for root & gtld servers, must not totally suck.
>
> BIND does ipV6, has since BIND8.
>
> It is also fully DNSSEC compliant. Is powerdns yet?
>
> Yes. Do check out all the alternatives for DNS. But if you're looking at
> ipV6 support because you want to be able to support upcoming protocols,
> make sure your DNS can do DNSSEC correctly too.
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