djbdns

Wolfpaw - Dale Corse admin-lists at wolfpaw.net
Thu Dec 11 21:13:46 PST 2003


How does djbdns measure up to bind anyway? Bind works wonderfully
for us.. any reasons someone can come up with (other then the beaten
to deal security arguments) why a person should change over?

Thanks in advance :)
D.
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Dale Corse
System Administrator
Wolfpaw Services Inc.
http://www.wolfpaw.net
(780) 474-4095

> -----Original Message-----
> From: owner-freebsd-isp at freebsd.org
> [mailto:owner-freebsd-isp at freebsd.org]On Behalf Of Greg 
> Cirino - Cirelle
> Enterprises
> Sent: Thursday, December 11, 2003 5:18 PM
> To: ::::Carlos:::Ariel:::Canta::::::::
> Cc: freebsd-isp at freebsd.org
> Subject: Re: djbdns
> 
> 
> | > But my clients use de same ip for cache(dnscahe=my 
> actully public ip) and
> 
> The basic logic for djbdns
> 
> tinydns - authorative IP
> axfrdns - authorative IP
> 
> dnscache - alternate IP
> 
> tinydns used for resolving domains you own on UDP
> axfrdns used for accepting requests from TCP (larger than 512)
> 
> dnscache used for resolving the internet (and your 
> authorative domains)
> 
> Let's say your authorative domain server is registered with 
> the internic as 
> NS.YOURDOMAIN.COM at IP 1.2.3.4 (this only contains domains 
> you host)
> 
> tinydns should listen to 1.2.3.4
> axfrdns should listen to 1.2.3.4
> 
> dnscache needs to be on a different IP (i.e. 1.2.3.5)
> 
> If you want your internal servers/workstations to be able 
> to resolve the internet
> you will need to change all primary dns entries in 
> resolv.conf (or network on
> windows machines) to the IP of dnscache (in this case 1.2.3.5).
> 
> A good reference can be found at:
> http://lifewithdjbdns.org/
> 
> HTH
> Greg
> 
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