On Tue, 23 Oct 2001 at 21:46, Federico Sevilla III wrote: > This is so cool. Why? Because I'm already comfortable with BIND as my > content DNS server (although I'm not discounting the possibility of > using djbdns 100% sometime in the future when I have more time to play > with it and migrate this mugger).
For some reason Dek's zealotism penetrated my BINDv9 soul quite effectively. I couldn't resist going to cr.yp.to and reading up on djbdns. WOW!!! In particular the data file is sooooo cool. Uber cool. At a first glance it looks greek. And I prefer my nicely formatted zone files in BIND. But knowing how much cr*p I have to go to modifying the various zone files for the various views I am now maintaining, and reading about things like =host.name.dom:1.2.3.4 which handles both forward and reverse settings already, and things like +*.domain.com:1.2.3.4 which means any undefined hostname is automatically that IP (great for me and my horrendous virtual aliases), and the lovely implementation of views which allows the multiple views of a particular hostname to come one after the other to allow for easier maintainance. No, I'm not just moving to djbdns for proxying. I'm moving 100%. Not now of course, but right after my finals (that's a day away). I still dislike djb's eccentric placement of stuff, like /service when /etc/init.d is there, but hey, that's SMALL compared to the ease that it will otherwise provide. This is a lovely night. I hope tomorrow's exam won't bring me down to the pits. ;> Thanks Dek. :) --> Jijo -- Federico Sevilla III :: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Network Administrator :: The Leather Collection, Inc. GnuPG Key: <http://jijo.leathercollection.ph/jijo.gpg> _ Philippine Linux Users Group. Web site and archives at http://plug.linux.org.ph To leave: send "unsubscribe" in the body to [EMAIL PROTECTED] To subscribe to the Linux Newbies' List: send "subscribe" in the body to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
