RE: [MLUG] DNS Servers

["Spurling, Shannon " <EMAIL:PROTECTED>]

Good book AKA DNS and BIND by O'riely and associates. :-) 
Personaly I think it's a crime how some of these systems seperate you from
the text config file. There isn't any magic to it. That's the secret. As
long as there aren't any bugs getting into the server, it's really basic.
Not like sendmail at all IMHO. Sendmail's config is horrendous. Bind's
config file is clean untill you start adding wierd options like limiting
zone transfers ( which I think is a waste of time and a bit on the paranoid
side ), or making BIND on your firewall answer only queries from your inside
network. Even then, the complexity is in finding the command format in the
docs for the named.conf file. Not hard. Sendmail can get really bizzare.

Thanks 

Shannon
-----Original Message-----
From: Ryan Thornton
To: EMAIL:PROTECTED
Sent: 6/2/01 6:15 PM
Subject: Re: [MLUG] DNS Servers

djbdns  would have been what I would recommend as well.  From what I've
heard, it has several parts that can run together or seperate depending
on
what type of DNS you need to run (caching only etc...)

Yes, BIND is still in service everywhere....so it's still a good thing
to
learn.  It's complicated, ( like sendmail) get a good book.. :-)

- Ryan



> Because BIND is what universities, government, and corporations use.
If
> djbdns setup is like BIND, then I'll use it. Is it? I've never really
set
> up or administered either. I've just done security stuff with BIND.
>
> I need DNS experience, period.
>
> Regards,
> Neil


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