[CentOS] tinydns -some help needed

[Benjamin Smith]

On Friday 27 January 2006 08:14, Alexandru E. Ungur wrote:
> > Any reason you're using tinydns as opposed to bind?  I can throw a
> > couple sample zones your way for bind, but I've never looked at
> > tinydns (given that it doesn't come with centos and all :-P )
>
> How about these reasons:
> http://cr.yp.to/djbdns/blurb/easeofuse.html ?

Boy, that would be funnier if it wasn't just so WRONG... 

As somebody who's used djb's various non-standard and often incompatable 
re-writes of standard tools, the servers with the most painful costs to 
support are those with djb's stuff installed. 

It's been a long time since bind was remotely exploitable, and even so, 
updating named when something is found is as simple as 

yum -y update; service named restart;

which should be part of your standard maintenance schedule, anyway. 

DJB's stuff is so old and infrequently updated, that now it often comes with a 
"standard set of patches" that must be applied before it will even compile! 
Furthermore, the license behind DJB's stuff is terrible - no binary 
distribution, etc. It's typical to be forced to recompile it just to apply a 
minor config change, making scripting of such updates and changes virtually 
impossible. 

If you want bind managed easily, Webmin is a good bet for making it "idiot 
proof". 

Sorry - I once was sold on the idea of djb's tools and Qmail, and I've 
regretted installing it ever since. Save yourself some serious agony - run 
(don't walk!) away from djb-ANYTHING! 

-Ben 
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