Should DNS be on same server as webserver?

Ruben de Groot mail25 at bzerk.org
Tue Jul 14 08:16:31 UTC 2009


On Tue, Jul 14, 2009 at 12:46:43AM -0400, Steve Bertrand typed:
> John Almberg wrote:
> > On Jul 13, 2009, at 6:27 PM, Karl Vogel wrote:
> >>
> >>    You can fix the security problems by dumping Bind and using djbdns.

What security problems? This one ? :)
http://blogs.zdnet.com/security/?p=2812

> > I actually do use djbdns. Super easy to use, once you figure it out.
> 
> ...to run a DNS cache with djbdns, it doesn't take much figuring out:

(snipped rather long installation instructions)

To enable DNS cache with bind:

echo "named_enable=YES" >>/etc/rc.conf
/etc/rc.d/named start

Ruben



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