On Thu, 14 Nov 2002 15:30:09 -0700 Vincent Danen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On Thursday, November 14, 2002, at 06:27 AM, Marcel Pol wrote: > > I like maradns, and I've been playing with it for a while now. > > I've been trying out different configfiles now, but I'm not completely > > happy > > with that and the packaging, therefore I haven't uploaded it yet. > > What's wrong with the packaging? I'll admit, I haven't looked at it > yet. Out of all the contendors, Dents and MaraDNS looked the best, so > I was thinking of packaging them for contribs myself. But if you've > got more experience with it, then please feel free. Actually I found the default config files a bit of a mess. I'd like to have a package with 3 configfiles, mararc.recursive, mararc.authorative and mararc.full, where /etc/sysconfig/maradns or the initscript defaults to the recursive configfile. I have been using the 1.0 version for some time. In the 1.1 tree the configfiles were remade a bit like this, so maybe I should look into that. I should be able to figure it out. Also the initscript is rather complex to me, and I was a bit stuck on it. It doesn't run daemonized, but with bash job control, and it can start several processes. I forgot what exactly, but there were some things I wanted to change, but it was over my head. I could make it a learning experience then, or let it be as it is, and upload it to contribs with the default initscript. > Quite frankly, I'd like to see another DNS server in main. We phased > out wu-ftpd as the defacto FTP server with proftpd... I'd like to see > something take the place of bind as well. If, for nothing else, then > as a caching-nameserver so that BIND doesn't need to be installed at > all. Ok, good to know. I had it running for some time now on my local network, and it seems rather functional for me. I don't have a heavy setup with ipv6, ipsec keys or whatever, so I'm not sure how the features compare to bind. But just on recursive and authorative I have good experience with it. -- Marcel Pol Linux 2.4.19-18mdk-ringworld.1, up 4 days, 13:41 Registered User #163523
