[olug] DNS recommendation?

[unfie at cox.net]

Learn the defacto tool, that way if you ever decide to try something else, you'll already be familiar with what just about everything else is based on or similar to.

I've used BIND for a small business for a couple years and generally don't have any complaints.  It's not a wide scale deployment, mind you.

-Will


> 
> From: Jay Hannah <jay at jays.net>
> Date: 2004/11/06 Sat AM 10:04:13 EST
> To: Omaha Linux User Group <olug at olug.org>
> Subject: Re: [olug] DNS recommendation?
> 
> 
> On Nov 5, 2004, at 10:34 AM, <thelarsons3 at cox.net> wrote:
> > I've heard that BIND is big, slow, and a security risk.  Is this true?
> 
> BIND has never failed me. I've never needed any other, and BIND has 
> always been there, ready to go on every distro I've ever used. Why not 
> learn such a simple and ubiquitous tool?
> 
> Unless you're an ISP I predict your time and energy spent leaving BIND 
> won't buy you any noticeable improvement for any metric. If the R&D is 
> fun, feel free. I'd still learn BIND first if I were you so you have 
> the knowledge to tweak what you'll find by default on the vast majority 
> of servers you run into.
> 
> j
> 
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