Re: bind9 vs tinydns vs others

2003-12-08 Thread Jernej Horvat
Wednesday 03 December 2003 15:36, Marcel Hicking To throw into something different: PowerDNS works fine with MySQL as a backend http://isp-lists.isp-planet.com/isp-dns/0310/msg00048.html short version :) i use nsd for authoritive dns servers and bind9 for recursive. -- -- To

Re: bind9 vs tinydns vs others

2003-12-08 Thread Jernej Horvat
Wednesday 03 December 2003 15:36, Marcel Hicking To throw into something different: PowerDNS works fine with MySQL as a backend http://isp-lists.isp-planet.com/isp-dns/0310/msg00048.html short version :) i use nsd for authoritive dns servers and bind9 for recursive. --

Re: bind9 vs tinydns vs others

2003-12-03 Thread Marcel Hicking
--Tuesday, December 02, 2003 17:18:05 -0500 Fraser Campbell [EMAIL PROTECTED]: On December 2, 2003 10:46 am, David Zejda wrote: what do you prefer for authoritative dns? experiences/stability...? i have no verbose bind knowledge yet. To throw into something different: PowerDNS works fine

Re: bind9 vs tinydns vs others

2003-12-03 Thread David Zejda
thanks for reply! i only guess, as well as your dns depends on some database (RDBMS or LDAP or something else), it increases the danger of attacks, especially DoS (db is down - dns respectively). flat files can't be down. wouldn't be better to generate flat files from the backend db to avoid such

Re: bind9 vs tinydns vs others

2003-12-03 Thread Fraser Campbell
On December 3, 2003 04:04 pm, David Zejda wrote: thanks for reply! i only guess, as well as your dns depends on some database (RDBMS or LDAP or something else), it increases the danger of attacks, especially DoS (db is down - dns respectively). flat files can't be down. wouldn't be better to

Re: bind9 vs tinydns vs others

2003-12-03 Thread David Zejda
thanks for reply! i only guess, as well as your dns depends on some database (RDBMS or LDAP or something else), it increases the danger of attacks, especially DoS (db is down - dns respectively). flat files can't be down. wouldn't be better to generate flat files from the backend db to avoid such

Re: bind9 vs tinydns vs others

2003-12-02 Thread Sneferu
For speed maradns.org. Somwhat more secure djbdns. Regards. At 17:46 02.12.2003, David Zejda wrote: what do you prefer for authoritative dns? experiences/stability...? i have no verbose bind knowledge yet. thanks David -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of

Re: bind9 vs tinydns vs others

2003-12-02 Thread Theodore J. Knab
Bind 9 is a total revamp of Bind 8. Bind8 had a bunch of security holes in it, so tinyDNS and the others came about. Bind9 was a rewrite from scratch with security as a goal. Bind9 is good for all types of general DNS stuff. Tiny-DNS is probably good for some applications, however you are

Re: bind9 vs tinydns vs others

2003-12-02 Thread W.D.McKinney
On Tue, 2003-12-02 at 06:46, David Zejda wrote: what do you prefer for authoritative dns? experiences/stability...? i have no verbose bind knowledge yet. thanks David Have to start somewhere so dive in after you feel you enough info. :-) We run djbdns,rbldns,etc., right now. All under

Re: bind9 vs tinydns vs others

2003-12-02 Thread Fraser Campbell
On December 2, 2003 10:46 am, David Zejda wrote: what do you prefer for authoritative dns? experiences/stability...? i have no verbose bind knowledge yet. For an authoritative only server there is nsd. It's only available in unstable but it should be easy enough to backport. I've only used

Re: bind9 vs tinydns vs others

2003-12-02 Thread Stephane Bortzmeyer
On Tue, Dec 02, 2003 at 04:46:55PM +0100, David Zejda [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote a message of 11 lines which said: what do you prefer for authoritative dns? nsd. See URL:http://www.nic-generique.prd.fr/sheets/practical/nameserver-en for a good reason. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL

Re: bind9 vs tinydns vs others

2003-12-02 Thread Sneferu
For speed maradns.org. Somwhat more secure djbdns. Regards. At 17:46 02.12.2003, David Zejda wrote: what do you prefer for authoritative dns? experiences/stability...? i have no verbose bind knowledge yet. thanks David -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe.

Re: bind9 vs tinydns vs others

2003-12-02 Thread Theodore J. Knab
Bind 9 is a total revamp of Bind 8. Bind8 had a bunch of security holes in it, so tinyDNS and the others came about. Bind9 was a rewrite from scratch with security as a goal. Bind9 is good for all types of general DNS stuff. Tiny-DNS is probably good for some applications, however you are

Re: bind9 vs tinydns vs others

2003-12-02 Thread Alex Borges
On Tue, 2003-12-02 at 09:46, David Zejda wrote: what do you prefer for authoritative dns? experiences/stability...? i have no verbose bind knowledge yet. Please explore the list for a three month very fun discussion about it (i still remember it). thanks David

Re: bind9 vs tinydns vs others

2003-12-02 Thread W.D.McKinney
On Tue, 2003-12-02 at 06:46, David Zejda wrote: what do you prefer for authoritative dns? experiences/stability...? i have no verbose bind knowledge yet. thanks David Have to start somewhere so dive in after you feel you enough info. :-) We run djbdns,rbldns,etc., right now. All under

Re: bind9 vs tinydns vs others

2003-12-02 Thread Fraser Campbell
On December 2, 2003 10:46 am, David Zejda wrote: what do you prefer for authoritative dns? experiences/stability...? i have no verbose bind knowledge yet. For an authoritative only server there is nsd. It's only available in unstable but it should be easy enough to backport. I've only used

Re: bind9 vs tinydns vs others

2003-12-02 Thread Stephane Bortzmeyer
On Tue, Dec 02, 2003 at 04:46:55PM +0100, David Zejda [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote a message of 11 lines which said: what do you prefer for authoritative dns? nsd. See URL:http://www.nic-generique.prd.fr/sheets/practical/nameserver-en for a good reason.