[SLL] Bind or ?

[Russell Evans]

On Fri, 06 May 2005 02:10:33 -0700
"Jim Richardson" <warlock at eskimo.com> wrote:

> 
> I am faced with the necessity of setting up a dns server for some
> hosted domains on a clients box, so the question is, which server? As
> near as I can figure it, it's a choice between Bind9, and tinydns.

>  I've used Bind in the pre 8 days and still have the scars. 

Setting up and maintaining, or turning it over to your client to
maintain? If the maintenance is by the client, then making it
comfortable for your client maintain is probably the best security
practice. 

Either way, here are some tools to help you make sure you've covered
everything

http://www.dnsreport.com/

http://www.dnsstuff.com/


Examples using quantumlinux.com

General info using dnsreport.com
http://tinyurl.com/dzb24

DNS Timing tool at dnsstuff.com
http://tinyurl.com/ap7w6

The other tools at www.dnsstuff.com are interesting too. The "Spam
database lookup" shows 64.113.1.99 on one spam db, JAMMDNSBL. That is
more than likely a false positive as it didn't hit any others. From
their webpage, they don't seems very interested in resolving servers on
the list either. 


http://www.jammconsulting.com/policies/dnsbl.shtml
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Thank you
Russell