On Tue, 19 Mar 2002, at 13:19 [=GMT-0800], Einar Stefferud wrote: > 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.
True, but there are other ways, that do not require a software license of $79, like an old 486 running FreeBSD. Or telling windows to use an ORSC nameserver naturally. M > Not a good businesslike arrangement. I can hardly wait till I can > mount my own root server in my home LAN. > > Cheers...\Stef > >
