[79505] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: djbdns: An alternative to BIND
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Niek)
Fri Apr 8 22:18:25 2005
Date: Sat, 09 Apr 2005 04:17:44 +0200
From: Niek <niek@asbak.coding-slaves.com>
To: nanog@merit.edu
In-Reply-To: <bb0e440a0504081903a72ec2f@mail.gmail.com>
Errors-To: owner-nanog@merit.edu
On 4/9/2005 4:03 AM +0100, Suresh Ramasubramanian wrote:
> No IXFR, no automatic notification of bind slaves (you get to run a
> separate notify script) ...
No RFC requires a specfic system of notification.
Seperate notify scripts are ok, rsync is even better!
Oh wait, does bind support rsync ?
> But yes, it is far easier to use, consumes very low amounts of memory
> and makes an excellent local resolver cache e&oe no roundrobin DNS
> without a patch (as in it returns all the A records in the same order
> every time, whereas bind does this in a different order ...)
Bind should patent this.
> No v6 support without a patch either
>
> Oh yes, patch, patch ... welcome to patching hell if you run qmail or
> any other djb ware :)
Yeah we tech folk hate patching.
As I mentioned earlier, djb - non-djb is a religion thing:
rfc-wise, feature-wise (bind supports something, tinydns should too).
Niek Baakman
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