On Sun, 2003-12-07 at 20:33, Sonia Hamilton wrote: > I've been looking at DJ Bernstein's djbdns server at > http://cr.yp.to/djbdns.html. > > I'm thinking of using it instead of bind9; just wondering if anyone has > any experiences with using it, and opinions (positive or negative).
You said you've used qmail. That probably means you've used daemontools as well. If you're comfortable with (and using) svscan/svc/multilog/etc and the whole /service symlink thing, then plugging djbdns in is a snap. We used it for a while - in fact, our use of it predated qmail; I think that was part of our problem - we didn't quite know what were doing with daemontools at that point, and that meant that we screwed up a few things (like forgetting to regenerate .cdb files, etc) which meant that our satisfaction wasn't as good as it might have been. That said, I'm really impressed with djbdns (and dnscachx which goes with it). It's a bit of a learning curve as is usual with DJB's stuff (what is it with that guy compulsively making hard to use software?) but the fact that it automatically generates the PTR records, for example, is terrific. I seem to recall that it either a) has issues with, or b) doesn't do, zone transfers. I'm probably wrong, but you might want to check. AfC Sydney -- Andrew Frederick Cowie Operational Dynamics Consulting Pty Ltd Australia: +61 2 9977 6866 North America: +1 646 472 5054 http://www.operationaldynamics.com/ -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/slug
