feedback on a good DNS server

[Matthew Seaman]

On Wed, Mar 09, 2005 at 02:00:50PM -0800, John Pettitt wrote:
> 
> 
> Paul Schmehl wrote:
> 
> > --On Wednesday, March 09, 2005 04:42:46 PM -0500 Ean Kingston
> > <ean at hedron.org> wrote:

> >> I belive Bind is still included with the base FreeBSD OS. I've used
> >> it in
> >> the past and never had any problems with it. As always, YMMV.

> "Has had" being the operative phrase - that would be bind 4 and bind 8 -
> bind 9 which is a rewrite has a pretty solid record - also in the ports
> tree.

BIND 9 is not only in the ports tree, it's the default bundled with
FreeBSD 5.x:


    % dig @localhost version.bind CHAOS TXT

    [...]

    ;; ANSWER SECTION:
    version.bind.           0       CH      TXT     "9.3.0"

But, more to the point, running the stock BIND in a chroot jail is
completely automatic nowadays.  All you need do is put
'named_enable="YES"' into /etc/rc.conf.

Performs well enough to serve typical home uses no problem.  Bind
9.3.1 is on the horizon, and I hear that the plan is to build that
threaded by default, which will improve responsiveness for more
demanding environments.

	  Cheers,

	  Matthew

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