At 07:32 PM 4/9/2005, you wrote:
David Conrad wrote:- Amount of codeAgain, what should be counted? Should you include rsync? Should you include utility programs like check-namedconf, axfr-get, rbldns, walldns, walldns-conf, etc.?
You need only count the lines of code needed by the daemon/s servicing requests. That is, IMO, bind's only major failing. Too much code, too many little used features (nobody I know needs or wants rndc), and no way to compile without them. If you read Bruce Schneier, as every developer should, you know how important that "Amount of code" is.
How do you add zones to your servers? We certainly don't connect to a shell on all of them for simple configuration tasks. Network shares and rndc make short work of most DNS tasks.
rndc -s ns1 reconfig
and
rndc -s ns1 reload zone.com
are the two most frequently used DNS tools used by our support staff. For automated tasks, writing a zone file to disk from the database on change and issuing an rndc reload is very useful.
On the djb vs. BIND debate, for database driven zones, just output BIND format files (or djb if that floats your boat) from your database. Calling the actual zone files the "database" doesn't make sense anyway. If you manage your information well, the file format of the server application doesn't really matter. The security, performance and standards compliance matter most - to us anyway.
-Robert
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