[Wylug-discuss] DNS Servers (Was: best sig ever)

[Smylers]

Geoff Richards writes:

> On Tue, Aug 24, 2004 at 10:18:23PM +0100, Roger Leigh wrote:
>
> > The BIND folks don't like to give too much away: two trivial example
> > named.conf snippets in the whole manual, and NO example zone files
> > at all--how on earth is a newcomer to understand it!!).
>
> With DNS you have to by The Book, which is actually very good.  Since
> there's only one DNS implementation worth bothering with, it's
> effectively the manual for BIND.

'TinyDNS' works, avoiding much of the complexity of 'Bind', and has a
better track record for security:

  http://cr.yp.to/djbdns/tinydns.html

The only downside is the attitude of its author, which pretty much
prevents it from being included in any distro (for example Debian has
the djbdns-installer package for installing it).

Smylers