For what it's worth, I'd second djbdns. I've been using it (and qmail) for a long time now, and haven't yet run into an issue.
Cheers, Sean On 12/13/05, Ben <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Tuesday 13 December 2005 20:54, Tom Smith wrote: > > I'm looking to install BIND DNS on one of my server (the first Gentoo box > > on my network) but haven't been able to locate it in Portage. I tried the > > obvious searches for "bind", "nameserver", "dns", etc, but still haven't > > been able to find it. > > > > Does Gentoo have a BIND package and, if so, what's it name? > > Uhh, there is a bind package: > > maya / # emerge -p bind > > These are the packages that I would merge, in order: > > Calculating dependencies ...done! > [ebuild N ] net-dns/bind-9.2.5-r6 > maya / # > > Although personally I'd be tempted to recommend djbdns, much in the same way > as I'd advise something like postfix over sendmail. There's some info on the > wiki on how to install and configure djbdns, along with links to more info: > > http://gentoo-wiki.com/HOWTO_Setup_a_DNS_Server_with_DJBDNS > -- > [email protected] mailing list > > -- [email protected] mailing list
