[SLL] Bind or ?

[Jim Richardson]

On Fri, 2005-05-06 at 07:58 -0700, Mark Foster wrote:
> Jim Richardson wrote:
> 
> >So the question is, should I look at Bind9? has it redeemed itself from
> >it's forerunners? or should I surrender and adopt djbware? Or is there
> >another choice?
> >  
> >
> djbdns is one choice. You might also consider maradns or powerdns.
> Neither of which I'm endorsing, I just know of them. maradns is meant to 
> be secure, powerdns a more "commercial" product with actual support.
> Also bind9 is fine! (Knock on wood).
> 
> Besides avoiding the "burn" what are your goals?
> Interoperability
> Security (as you stated)
> Stability
> Will it run on your platform/distribution (is RPM or DEB available?)
> Esoteric requirements such as IPv6 and/or DNSSEC
> (and a personal favorite)
> Would you list it on your resume
> 

Well, I don't know much about the other two, but not sure I want to go
with something "off the radar" as it were, it's a production box, and I
don't have any feeling for how good they are. 

Hadn't thought of the resume angle, although frankly, anything to do
with DNS is probably good there. Bind9 is avail (this is an RHEL3 box)
and djbdns would be a roll my own, so that's a big strike against it. 

To be fair, my reservations about Bind are a result of the history, <9
had some serious problems, but it's a total rewrite now, right? Anyway,
looks like I'll try Bind and see. 
-- 
Jim Richardson http://www.eskimo.com/~warlock
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