djbdns

[Brad Davis]

Note that even the BIND developers admitted that it is recommended to
run a seperate instance of BIND for publishing dns records and another
for a cache.. DJBDNS just forces you to do this :)


Brad Davis
DJBDNS user for 6 months

On Wed, Jan 07, 2004 at 01:26:21PM -0500, Kenny Freeman wrote:
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> My experience with bind has been less than fun - a pain to maintain with all 
> of these security fixes and also the file format is terrible. I switched to 
> djbdns as soon as I found out about it and was happy with a test server that 
> I setup. It is a bit of a hassle to get up and running, but when it is 
> finally setup properly you don't have to touch it at all, period. I have been 
> running djbdns for well over a year, more like over two years and I have not 
> had to touch it even once in that time. I have a perl script that updates the 
> data files from a MySQL database. I also have a CGI interface to the db, so I 
> can add/edit/delete dns records thru my web browser. The djbdns data file 
> format is very simple and a joy to work with compared to binds. You should 
> note however that with djbdns, instead of using 2 ips for 2 nameservers I 
> have to use 2xcache ips, 2xserver ips, and 2x zone xfer ips, and also that 
> the caches have to be notified of any dns servers for domains that you host - 
> my perl script takes care of that for me tho. Oh, and another thing... I have 
> heard of people having problems with djbdns on extremely heavily loaded 
> servers where queries were getting dropped - in that case I would use a round 
> robin nat in front of the servers to distribute the load among many dns 
> servers... my $0.02.
> 
> -Kenny
> 
> On December 12, 2003 12:35 am, Jason Fesler wrote:
> > > 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?
> >
> > If you are happy with bind;
> > If you stay current on bind security problems;
> > If you find the ISC to be hoopy froods and DJB to be, well, DJB;
> > then focus your attention to more fruitful efforts.
> >
> > Really.
> >
> > --jason
> >   (a die hard djbdns user, who fears bind to death, but not an evangelist)
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