[Gllug] Name server software?

[Daniel P. Berrange]

On Tue, Jan 04, 2005 at 01:06:30PM +0000, Rev Simon Rumble wrote:
> I was under the impression that BIND was what people used for the same 
> reasons they still use Sendmail: they it know and it is well-tested and 
> working (cf, "Legacy" thread also on GLLUG right now).  Are the newer 
> DNS implementation truly not worth considering?  Have they not improved 
> on anything?

Has anyone tried any of the DNS packages listed on this page :

http://www.linuxmafia.com/~rick/faq/index.php?page=warez

 " Instead of djbdns/tinydns (Bernstein's DNS nameserver suite): Many of us
   are migrating to Paul Vixie's (the Internet Software Consortium's) newer,
   written-from-scratch BIND v. 9 codebase, because the old, traditional BIND
   v. 8 package is too crufty and security-bug-filled (and has therefore been
   abandoned). Johannes Erdfelt's dents  server remains promising, but
   development appears to be stalled. Suitable alternatives for some
   deployments include Thomas Moestl's permanent-caching server pdnsd, Sam
   Trenholme's MaraDNS, Michael Wolf's moodns, Don Moore's MyDNS, Alexis Yushin
   / Stichting NLnet Labs's NSD, Brad Garcia's DNRD - Domain Name Relay Daemon,
   Meilof Veeningen and Jama Poulsen's Posadis, Hubert Tonneau's Pliant,
   Salvatore Sanfilippo's Yaku-NS  (formerly ENS), Eric Kidd's CustomDNS
   (formerly LiveDNS), Simon Kelley's Dnsmasq, Mrs. Brisby's ldapdns, Creighton
   Macdonnell and Mike Machado's GnuDIP, Roland Schemer and Rob Riepel's
   lbnamed, Eddieware's Eddie Enhanced DNS Server (formerly lbdns), and
   PowerDNS.com BV's PowerDNS."

BIND v9 may be a nice re-write from scratch, but ISC's track record
at writing secure software isn't exactly  inspiring & I've had enough of
DJSDNS. So any positive endorsements of other solutions would be  welcome :-)

Regards,
Dan
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