[linux-sec-uk] djbdns / dns

[Andreas Landmark]

On Wed, Aug 20, 2003 at 02:37:51PM +0100, Simon Adlem wrote:
> IMHO, I think BIND 9 is the definitive answer for DNS. 

It's not bad ;-)

> I use Qmail  - really good mailserver, in my opinion the best around, but I 
> don't like the way djbdns works even though djb recommends it for use with 
> Qmail.
> 
> Bind 9 is secure and has some cool functions which makes it my number one 
> choice every time.

Using DJBs cacheing-server is not stupid either, I have had several
setups with BIND answering externally (and serving authorative) with
djb-dns setup to listen on loopback.

DJB-dns does seem to do a better job at caching (speed and
memorywise) than BIND does...

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