I'm sorry, but I just don't see much point in running a DNS server program (e.g., BIND) on anything but a DNS server. To me, that's just adding cruft to a box. My thought process is to always streamline what runs on a box, not to add services to it.
-- Puryear Information Technology, LLC Baton Rouge, LA * 225-706-8414 http://www.puryear-it.com Author, "Best Practices for Managing Linux and UNIX Servers" http://www.puryear-it.com/pubs/linux-unix-best-practices Identity Management, LDAP, and Linux Integration willhill wrote: > There's not much that's Windows like here. It's a valuable and useful > service, it's not installed and run by default, it has reasonable default > values and there are plenty of alternative packages in the repositories. The > unnecessary services that Windows is famous for are not valuable, are > installed by default without your knowledge and are difficult to turn off, so > you need another operating system to filter what your Windows computer sees. > If you know of any problems with Debian's version of BIND, I'd like to hear > about them. > > On Friday 21 September 2007 10:08 am, Dustin Puryear wrote: >> Joey- >> >> I would argue against this particular angle. It seems to me that it goes >> under "running unnecessary services on your computer", which is already >> a vice that Windows and most Linux distros have. Thoughts? > > _______________________________________________ > General mailing list > General at brlug.net > http://mail.brlug.net/mailman/listinfo/general_brlug.net
