Re: [gentoo-user] {OT} web/mail server as nameserver

2007-05-11 Thread Crayon Shin Chan
On Friday 11 May 2007 04:29, Grant wrote: Hello, I've been using everydns.net as my site's nameserver but they were down for a long time yesterday and are currently down again today. I've used zoneedit.com for years and have never had a problem. If this remote machine is my only web and mail

Re: [gentoo-user] {OT} web/mail server as nameserver

2007-05-11 Thread jarry
Crayon Shin Chan wrote: Would you use djbdns for this? It would be a more secure choice than bind :) Well, I do not know djbdns well so I can not compare djbdns/bind, but I think bind security is not so bad: it can run as non-root user now, moreover bind supports chrooting right out the

Re: [gentoo-user] {OT} web/mail server as nameserver

2007-05-11 Thread Crayon Shin Chan
On Friday 11 May 2007 18:48, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Poor security of bind is imho similar superstition as it is for sendmail: once in the past this software had some problem, so now a lot of people think they should forever avoid using it... If the OP doesn't need any bind-specific feature

Re: [gentoo-user] {OT} web/mail server as nameserver

2007-05-11 Thread Håkon Alstadheim
Crayon Shin Chan wrote: On Friday 11 May 2007 18:48, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Poor security of bind is imho similar superstition as it is for sendmail: once in the past this software had some problem, so now a lot of people think they should forever avoid using it... If the OP

Re: [gentoo-user] {OT} web/mail server as nameserver

2007-05-11 Thread kashani
Håkon Alstadheim wrote: Crayon Shin Chan wrote: On Friday 11 May 2007 18:48, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Poor security of bind is imho similar superstition as it is for sendmail: once in the past this software had some problem, so now a lot of people think they should forever avoid using it...