On Jul 25, 2007, at 12:14 AM, Lonnie Olson wrote:
Kimball Larsen wrote:
So, I've got to handle setting up DNS on a linux box for the first
time - done it before on a mac, but used a spiffy interface that
hid the icky underpinnings of BIND from me and made it a cinch to
set everything up.
What server does everyone like here? I've heard that there are
others besides BIND to consier, but not sure which ones are worth
looking into.
Depends on your intended use of it. If you plan to ever include
"DNS" to your resume you *must* learn to use BIND. In the general
IT world DNS = BIND.
If you have few zones with tons of records, and have plenty of
memory, use rbldnsd. Especially for maintaining local copies of
DNS blacklists.
http://www.corpit.ru/mjt/rbldnsd.html
If you need easy integration with a database, or easy management,
and frequent small changes. Look at MyDNS. Store your records in
a MySQL database.
For anything else use BIND. Best feature set. Most popular. De-
facto standard. Not very hard to do simple stuff.
BIND rulez! :)
--lonnie
Thanks everyone for all your suggestions - I went ahead and used
BIND, and the total time it took me to get 18 or so zones configured
correctly was only about 2 hours, including all the reading I did to
understand a) DNS in general and b) BIND's approach in particular.
I'd heard that BIND was a bit of a beast to configure, but 2 hours is
really not all that bad to go from next to zero knowledge to a fully
working DNS.
Thanks!
-- Kimball
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