Re: [AOLSERVER] Root-server switches from BIND to NSD.

2003-02-25 Thread Hilmar Nooitgedagt
> Among others, there's a SourceForge project called BIND-DLZ in which BIND > serves records directly from a database, without needing zone files, and > without having to declare all your zones in a config file prior to startup, > so you can add zones just by updating the database. This would pr

Re: [AOLSERVER] Root-server switches from BIND to NSD.

2003-02-25 Thread Patrick Spence
- Original Message - From: "Rob Mayoff" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Tuesday, February 25, 2003 1:07 PM Subject: Re: [AOLSERVER] Root-server switches from BIND to NSD. > +-- On Feb 25, Patrick Spence said: > > I'd certai

Re: [AOLSERVER] Root-server switches from BIND to NSD.

2003-02-25 Thread Peter M. Jansson
On Tuesday, February 25, 2003, at 03:05 PM, Rob Mayoff wrote: +-- On Feb 25, Dossy said: Added bonus would be a web interface for viewing zones and editing them, which would persist changes back down to the DBMS. Note that a web interface to your DNS data doesn't require that AOLserver res

Re: [AOLSERVER] Root-server switches from BIND to NSD.

2003-02-25 Thread Rob Mayoff
+-- On Feb 25, Patrick Spence said: > I'd certainly be willing to use it here :) it would be a lot easier to > administer than bind is for me.. There are alternatives to BIND that many consider easier to administer. I. To remove yourself from this list: Send a message to "[EMAIL PROTE

Re: [AOLSERVER] Root-server switches from BIND to NSD.

2003-02-25 Thread Rob Mayoff
+-- On Feb 25, Dossy said: > Added bonus would be a web interface for viewing zones and editing > them, which would persist changes back down to the DBMS. Note that a web interface to your DNS data doesn't require that AOLserver respond to DNS requests. I. To remove yourself from this l

Re: [AOLSERVER] Root-server switches from BIND to NSD.

2003-02-25 Thread Patrick Spence
- Original Message - From: "Dossy" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Tuesday, February 25, 2003 11:22 AM Subject: Re: [AOLSERVER] Root-server switches from BIND to NSD. > On 2003.02.25, Jerry Asher <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >

Re: [AOLSERVER] Root-server switches from BIND to NSD.

2003-02-25 Thread Dossy
On 2003.02.25, Rob Mayoff <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > +-- On Feb 25, Tom Ivar Helbekkmo said: > > Really cool, in fact! If it were efficient enough, it would save the > > trouble of generating BIND zone files from an RDBMS; > > There are already servers available that can serve DNS direct

Re: [AOLSERVER] Root-server switches from BIND to NSD.

2003-02-25 Thread Tom Jackson
Rob Mayoff wrote: +-- On Feb 25, Tom Ivar Helbekkmo said: Really cool, in fact! If it were efficient enough, it would save the trouble of generating BIND zone files from an RDBMS; There are already servers available that can serve DNS directly from MySQL or Postgres. They are not nearl

Re: [AOLSERVER] Root-server switches from BIND to NSD.

2003-02-25 Thread Rob Mayoff
+-- On Feb 25, Tom Ivar Helbekkmo said: > Really cool, in fact! If it were efficient enough, it would save the > trouble of generating BIND zone files from an RDBMS; There are already servers available that can serve DNS directly from MySQL or Postgres. They are not nearly as fast as a de

Re: [AOLSERVER] Root-server switches from BIND to NSD.

2003-02-25 Thread Tom Ivar Helbekkmo
Dossy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > If there was an nsudp socket, we could implement a DNS server that > runs out of AOLserver that could use any nsdb to store zone data in > a DBMS ... that might be mildly interesting. Really cool, in fact! If it were efficient enough, it would save the trouble

Re: [AOLSERVER] Root-server switches from BIND to NSD.

2003-02-25 Thread Jerry Asher
Dossy wrote: On 2003.02.25, Jerry Asher wrote: >The nsd in this case is not the naviserver daemon we all enjoy but a >nameserver daemon written at "NLnet Labs in cooperation with RIPE." Should we add to the confusion and start coding up an nsdns module so one could use AOLserver to serve DNS? :

Re: [AOLSERVER] Root-server switches from BIND to NSD.

2003-02-25 Thread Dossy
On 2003.02.25, Jerry Asher <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > The nsd in this case is not the naviserver daemon we all enjoy but a > nameserver daemon written at "NLnet Labs in cooperation with RIPE." Should we add to the confusion and start coding up an nsdns module so one could use AOLserver to serv

[AOLSERVER] Root-server switches from BIND to NSD.

2003-02-25 Thread Jerry Asher
http://slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=55040&threshold=-1&commentsort=3&tid=185&mode=thread&pid=5379648 Well this isn't really as true or good as I wish it was. The nsd in this case is not the naviserver daemon we all enjoy but a nameserver daemon written at "NLnet Labs in cooperation with RIPE." ht