[SunRescue] Dont feel like running BIND for 10 systems

[Sebastian Marius Kirsch]

On Sat, Mar 31, 2001 at 11:38:42AM +0100, David Cantrell wrote:
> I've got as far as enabling people to do zone transfers *from* my box,
> but haven't bothered yet (cos I didn't need it) with zone transfers
> *to* my server.

Not really difficult. Basically, you use axfr-get to get the zone data
in djbdns format, merge that into your root/data file (or, even better,
concatenate several files -- your own zone data, and the data you get
via zone transfers -- to the data file), run make, and that's
it. There's an example in the djbdns docs.

> Don't run bind.  It's far more pain than its worth.  djbdns rocks my
> world.

My words. I'm about to use djbdns as a replacement for bind in a network
with ~500 nodes, because bind simply doesn't cut it. It's amazingly
unreliable, sometimes failing to find a hostname for ten minutes or
more. dnscache (from djbdns) has never failed me so far.

-- 
Yours, Sebastian Kirsch <skirsch at moebius.inka.de>

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