vince cagud said:
>
> okay, if BIND is such a horror, i have a question for all serious DNS
> administrators out there. what nameserver program would you use that
> supports the RFCs as much as BIND does? i'm talking about ISP grade, or
>  root-server grade name service software? one that supports primaries,
> secondaries, master-slave, zone transfers and updates...and what-not?

DJBDNS supports these too but in a totally different fashion. it requires a
DNS management "paradigm shift" :)

> the reason i'm asking is i'm using djbdns for the office lan, but i use
>  bind for our central nameserver which has several slave dns machines,
> including those of our providers. i feel i would be able to sleep
> better  at night knowing that the risk of the bind instances running
> amok is  lessened.

in my opinion, BIND 9 with its chrooted nameserver running as user named is
good enough. that's WAY better than when i ran BIND 8.2.something as root,
and my machine was 0wn3d by the Li0N worm :) but in general, i find DJBDNS
faster and i like it espousing the more sound way of managing DNS, that is,
separating caching nameservers (dnscache) and authoritative nameservers
(tinydns)...

-dre



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