[79503] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: djbdns: An alternative to BIND
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Niek)
Fri Apr 8 21:56:46 2005
Date: Sat, 09 Apr 2005 03:56:15 +0200
From: Niek <niek@asbak.coding-slaves.com>
To: nanog@merit.edu
In-Reply-To: <458355f3f69b45aa10662981f160f49e@daork.net>
Errors-To: owner-nanog@merit.edu
On 4/9/2005 3:46 AM +0100, Nathan Ward wrote:
> I had a play with DJBDNS after using BIND for years. Here's why I
> switched back:
> - No AXFR support
It supports this.
> - No TCP support
It supports this.
> - I was forced to use DJBs naming conventions for zones
If you administer 2-3 domains, sure it's an hassle, if not, put code-monkeys
to work. Most script people I know love the tinydns zone structure in comparison
to bind's one.
> - Licensing
I agree here.
> - Installation
A no-brainer.
Niek Baakman
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