[olug] DNS recommendation?

[Terry]

http://www.ibiblio.org/pub/Linux/docs/HOWTO/other-formats/html_single/DNS-HOWTO.html


On Sun, 7 Nov 2004 20:44:22 +0000, Adam Lassek <adam.lassek at gmail.com> wrote:
> Does anyone know of a HOWTO for setting up DNS on a small home
> network? The guides I have read so far seem to go into way more detail
> than I need and end up just confusing me.
> 
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> On Sat, 6 Nov 2004 16:19:24 -0500, unfie at cox.net <unfie at cox.net> wrote:
> > 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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