At 12:08 PM +0100 3/19/02, Marc Schneiders wrote: >On Mon, 18 Mar 2002, at 20:52 [=GMT-0500], Richard J. Sexton wrote: > > > >> There's a $35 piece of sofware called "Simple DNS+" that puts >bind to shame > > >> for ease of use anf user friendlyness. http://www.jhsoft.com/ >There's a 30 > > >> day free trial. I tried it and paid for it, it's really quite >amazing; it does > > >> caching, authoritative nameservice and zone transfers. > > > > > >Works fine indeed. Thanks. Pity the price has gone up to $79. That > > >includes 25 zones, but those I do not need. > > > > It might have always been that much, I don't really remember. But >it's good jah? > >It is good, as far as I can see. But the price will not make it >popular. What we need is something like djbdns's dnscache for Windows. >Not many people will need a real nameserver that serves zones. Isn't >there anyone around who can 'play' with dnscache and compile it for >Windows?
If you won't set up your own personal copy of the DNS root, then you must except that you are dependent on someone else, most likely someone who owes you nothing. Not a good businesslike arrangement. I can hardly wait till I can mount my own root server in my home LAN. Cheers...\Stef
