[SLL] Bind or ?

[Chuck Wolber]

On Fri, 6 May 2005, Jim Richardson wrote:

> I am faced with the necessity of setting up a dns server for some hosted 
> domains on a clients box, so the question is, which server? As near as I 
> can figure it, it's a choice between Bind9, and tinydns. Now, I am *not* 
> a member of the church of djb, on the other hand, I've used Bind in the 
> pre 8 days and still have the scars.

Scars? I've used Bind since the 4.X days. I never saw how it was that bad.


> So the question is, should I look at Bind9? has it redeemed itself from 
> it's forerunners? or should I surrender and adopt djbware? Or is there 
> another choice?

Without knowing any of your specific complaints, it's difficult to know 
what you are looking for. Bind9 is very feature rich and, IMHO, pretty 
darn easy to use. I've never looked at djb though so I can't relate any 
personal comparisons.

-Chuck



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