Re: djbdns: An alternative to BIND

2005-04-09 Thread Steve Atkins
On Fri, Apr 08, 2005 at 03:55:15PM -0700, Vicky Rode wrote: Just wondering how many have transitioned to djbdns from bind and if so any feedback. djbdns has lower performance, both as an authoritative and recursive resolver, than bind. It's less flexible than bind9. But it's data files and

Re: djbdns: An alternative to BIND

2005-04-09 Thread sthaug
I had a play with DJBDNS after using BIND for years. Here's why I switched back: - No AXFR support It supports this. No IXFR, no automatic notification of bind slaves (you get to run a separate notify script) ... But yes, it is far easier to use, consumes very low amounts of

Re: djbdns: An alternative to BIND

2005-04-09 Thread Stephane Bortzmeyer
On Fri, Apr 08, 2005 at 03:55:15PM -0700, Vicky Rode [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote a message of 20 lines which said: Just wondering how many have transitioned to djbdns from bind If transitioning from BIND, why go to the non-free and non-compliant djbdns instead of nsd

Re: djbdns: An alternative to BIND

2005-04-09 Thread David Conrad
On Apr 8, 2005, at 5:43 PM, Niek wrote: On 4/9/2005 1:50 AM +0100, Paul Vixie wrote: Count Server Software [snip some list] One could also put together a list based on: This actually would be an interesting list. Unfortunately, the criteria you provide are a bit hard to come up with reasonable

Re: books every network operator should read?

2005-04-09 Thread Kim Onnel
Internet Routing Arch. Routing TCP/IP vol.1 Cisco LAN Switching or Any other LAN switching book Troubleshooting Routing Protocols by Zaheer Aziz Cisco ISP essentials Some chapters of IOS software Arch On Apr 9, 2005 6:36 AM, Janet Sullivan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'd like to make a

Re: books every network operator should read?

2005-04-09 Thread MARLON BORBA
Blueprints for High Availability Ewan Stern Hal Marcus John Wiley Sons . High Availability Network Fundamentals Chris Oggerino Cisco Press Fundamental readings for those 24x7 guys. Abraços, Marlon Borba, CISSP. Você prefere sua estabilidade hoje ou sua felicidade amanhã? --Max

Re: djbdns: An alternative to BIND

2005-04-09 Thread Niels Bakker
* [EMAIL PROTECTED] (David Conrad) [Sat 09 Apr 2005, 10:14 CEST]: [..] PowerDNS: Yes (authoritative only) [..] (I might have gotten some of these wrong) You are - PowerDNS has pdns_recursor and has for quite a while. Uses less memory than BIND and is faster too. Potential conflict of

Re: djbdns: An alternative to BIND

2005-04-09 Thread Will Yardley
On Sat, Apr 09, 2005 at 01:14:14AM -0700, David Conrad wrote: Fortunately, if it is a religion, I am agnostic in the BIND vs. DJB war since I work for a company that has created a product that could be argued competes with both... :-). Didn't Nominum write BIND9, and doesn't / didn't it

Re: Blog...

2005-04-09 Thread Fergie (Paul Ferguson)
Thanks for the kind words. - ferg -- Bill Woodcock [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have to agree... Paul's been doing an excellent job of picking out the one or two things that really matter each day, and I've found it quite valuable. I think that unlike much of the administrivial chatter on

Re: djbdns: An alternative to BIND

2005-04-09 Thread Paul Vixie
Fortunately, if it is a religion, I am agnostic in the BIND vs. DJB war since I work for a company that has created a product that could be argued competes with both... :-). and from what i've heard, everyone who has tested nominum's ANS and/or CNS has been impressed with the performance,

Re: djbdns: An alternative to BIND

2005-04-09 Thread David Conrad
On Apr 9, 2005, at 9:35 AM, Will Yardley wrote: On Sat, Apr 09, 2005 at 01:14:14AM -0700, David Conrad wrote: Fortunately, if it is a religion, I am agnostic in the BIND vs. DJB war since I work for a company that has created a product that could be argued competes with both... :-). Didn't

Re: AS prepending

2005-04-09 Thread Hank Nussbacher
On Fri, 8 Apr 2005, Patrick W Gilmore wrote: On Apr 8, 2005, at 10:28 AM, Philip Lavine wrote: I am using AS prepending to favor one ISP over another, in a BGP multihomed/multiISP scenario. Why does the ISP receiving the prepends fail to add my network into their routing table? Is this

Re: djbdns: An alternative to BIND

2005-04-09 Thread Paul Wouters
On Sat, 9 Apr 2005, Stephane Bortzmeyer wrote: Just wondering how many have transitioned to djbdns from bind If transitioning from BIND, why go to the non-free and non-compliant djbdns instead of nsd (http://www.nlnetlabs.nl/nsd/)? I couldn't agree more. At least BIND9 and NSD both support RFC

Re: djbdns: An alternative to BIND

2005-04-09 Thread Roger Marquis
David Conrad wrote: - Amount of code Again, what should be counted? Should you include rsync? Should you include utility programs like check-namedconf, axfr-get, rbldns, walldns, walldns-conf, etc.? You need only count the lines of code needed by the daemon/s servicing requests. That is, IMO,

Re: books every network operator should read?

2005-04-09 Thread Roger Marquis
Janet Sullivan wrote: I'd like to make a list for the BGP4.net wiki of books that are thought highly of by the network community. What books stand out for you as being excellent? If you could only own 5 network related books, what would they be? One of my favorites from years back though not

Re: djbdns: An alternative to BIND

2005-04-09 Thread Etaoin Shrdlu
Roger Marquis wrote: You need only count the lines of code needed by the daemon/s servicing requests. That is, IMO, bind's only major failing. Too much code, too many little used features (nobody I know needs or wants rndc), and no way to compile without them. If you read Bruce Schneier,

Re: djbdns: An alternative to BIND

2005-04-09 Thread Stefan Schmidt
On Sat, Apr 09, 2005 at 04:32:12PM -0700, Roger Marquis wrote: You need only count the lines of code needed by the daemon/s servicing requests. That is, IMO, bind's only major failing. Too much code, too many little used features (nobody I know needs or wants rndc), and no way to compile

Re: djbdns: An alternative to BIND

2005-04-09 Thread Robert Boyle
At 07:32 PM 4/9/2005, you wrote: David Conrad wrote: - Amount of code Again, what should be counted? Should you include rsync? Should you include utility programs like check-namedconf, axfr-get, rbldns, walldns, walldns-conf, etc.? You need only count the lines of code needed by the daemon/s

Call for Track Chairs - APRICOT 2006

2005-04-09 Thread Suresh Ramasubramanian
APRICOT 2006 CALL FOR TECHNICAL CONFERENCE TRACK CHAIRS Asia Pacific Regional Internet Conference on Operational Technologies Perth, Australia Feb 22 - Mar 3, 2006 The APRICOT 2006 Program Committee is seeking interested and qualified Track Chairs to actively assist the Committee in recruiting

Re: djbdns: An alternative to BIND

2005-04-09 Thread sthaug
You need only count the lines of code needed by the daemon/s servicing requests. That is, IMO, bind's only major failing. Too much code, too many little used features (nobody I know needs or wants rndc), and no way to compile without them. If you read Bruce Schneier, as every developer