[114680] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: ISP best practices
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Curtis Maurand)
Thu May 21 15:08:01 2009
Date: Thu, 21 May 2009 15:09:40 -0400
From: Curtis Maurand <cmaurand@xyonet.com>
To: Joe Abley <jabley@hopcount.ca>
In-Reply-To: <35BB447D-3CB9-4141-A5A7-01CB7AEB6DC3@hopcount.ca>
Cc: nanog@nanog.org
Errors-To: nanog-bounces+nanog.discuss=bloom-picayune.mit.edu@nanog.org
You're correct on the blanket statement. apologies.
--C
Joe Abley wrote:
>
> On 21-May-2009, at 11:06, Curtis Maurand wrote:
>
>> Check out www.powerdns.com as an alternative to bind. Its faster,
>> more secure, does IPV6 and easier to maintain.
>
> I have heard lots of good things about PowerDNS, and I'm quite
> prepared to believe that it's a natural choice for a DNS hosting
> service where the database back-end makes for far simpler provisioning
> and control than managing a pile of config files.
>
> However, you're not necessarily doing anybody any favours in making
> statements like "faster", "more secure" and "does IPv6". DNS servers
> are complicated beasts, and simplistic comparisons are not useful for
> much (it'd be trivial to give you examples where PowerDNS is slower
> and less secure, for example, and BIND9 has done IPv6 for the better
> part of a decade).
>
>
> Joe
