On Sun, 2003-09-07 at 22:41, Nick Rout wrote: > Just resolving around 6 or seven machines on a local net, firewalled. > any ideas n which is better/easier to maintain? I have set up bind from > a template before, never touched djbdns.
There's more documentation for BIND, in the form of the O'Reilly "BIND and DNS". I run a small set of BIND boxes quite happily, the config files are reasonably easy to read by eye, and I farm about 1000 domains off there with basically no problems. I also have a bunch of djbdns boxes that I'm responsible for. The documentation is, IMHO, not suitable for people who don't already know DNS backwards (that's SND, so trust me ... :-), and the config files are optimised for use by the programs, not the administrator. Instead of all being found in one place, the configs are scattered around a set of different files (something like the kernel parameters in /proc ... was that /proc/net or /proc/sys/net ?). However, once you've learned how to do it, I guess you're happy. I think I believe djb's claims that his programs are 'better', but I also believe that BIND is 'good enough'. -jim
