On Fri, 30 May 2003, Bill Cole wrote: > At 12:34 PM -0500 5/29/03, Joe Laffey imposed structure on a stream > of electrons, yielding: > > > >Get a unix box. (I like www.netbsd.org it will run on almost anything, > >including old Macs, even 68k macs run dns fine) > > Or get an OS X machine.
Of course. > > >Then use rbldns http://cr.yp.to/djbdns.html > > I also would strongly recommend against running djbdns or anything > else written by Dan Bernstein. Aside from the overwhelming evidence > that the man is a raving lunatic who answers support queries and > feature requests with personal attacks, if you are concerned about > the legal status of software you run you will have an interesting > time figuring out just exactly what your license to any of his > products really is. I know a lot of people who manage to deal with > the unclear licensing and the effective total lack of support and > even the paranoid delusional conspiracy theories (as you read through > the djbdns site, keep that phrase in mind when Dan starts discussing > BIND) but I would not recommend trying. Heh. I just migrated to djbdns. The license makes sense to me. The product is far simpler and easier in my mind than BIND. It also has an excellent security record, unlike BIND, which is one of the most notorious apps for being insecure... BIND also has a terrible caching strategy, where is purges the most recent queries first, making the cache worthelss when it is full. I moved to djbdns for performance, and I have realized it in faster queries, and less problems under load. DJB is opinionated, but that doesn't affect the quality of the software he writes. Open Source authors can hardly be expected to provide full support for free. Sure I try to with my OSS projects, but mine are very small in comparison. -- Joe Laffey | Want to convert subnet masks between different LAFFEY Computer Imaging | notations, or figure the number of IPs in a block? St. Louis, MO | Whatmask-It's FREE - www.laffeycomputer.com/wm.html ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ ############################################################# This message is sent to you because you are subscribed to the mailing list <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>. To unsubscribe, E-mail to: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To switch to the DIGEST mode, E-mail to <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To switch to the INDEX mode, E-mail to <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Send administrative queries to <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
