On Thursday, November 14, 2002, at 06:27 AM, Marcel Pol wrote:

Actually, the real question, is why are you still using bind at all?
ISC screwed the pooch on this one big time...  I wouldn't touch bind
after this mess with a 10 foot pole.
And what other real alternatives ? I mean free software alternatives, not
DJB's stuff...
I like maradns, and I've been playing with it for a while now.
I've been trying out different configfiles now, but I'm not completely happy
with that and the packaging, therefore I haven't uploaded it yet.
I was also afraid that there was no interest, because bind9 is actually rather
good, there aren't many exploits up till now.
There still isn't. Thankfully, BIND9 isn't affected by these problems (or at least, that's what we're told... can anyone really trust ISC now?).

What's wrong with the packaging? I'll admit, I haven't looked at it yet. Out of all the contendors, Dents and MaraDNS looked the best, so I was thinking of packaging them for contribs myself. But if you've got more experience with it, then please feel free.

Quite frankly, I'd like to see another DNS server in main. We phased out wu-ftpd as the defacto FTP server with proftpd... I'd like to see something take the place of bind as well. If, for nothing else, then as a caching-nameserver so that BIND doesn't need to be installed at all.

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