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!
I don't know what problems you had with it, but I'm hapilly using it on about 20 servers (both djbdns and qmail) and never had a problem with it. I'll remember your advice when I'll encounter my first problem, though I may just as well read the docs again when that happens... :)
--- I second the djb comment, the guy is an arrogant prick; if something doesn't compile on your server he thinks its your fault. (i.e. back when he was linking all of his software to the wrong error.h and you had to mod it to get it to compile). Not only is it not written that well; but qmail for example. You have to install another piece of software to control relay, and it is totally non intuitive in any way. As far as tinydns the idea of having to install a "control daemon" to run his software is kind of ridiculous to me.
Bind really couldn't be any easier to use, and it works every time.
-Drew
On 28/1/06 16:37, in article B9ECBF8D89E7684EB63FF250E8788B1920447B@BIGLOG.thenap.com, "Drew Weaver" drew.weaver@thenap.com wrote:
Bind really couldn't be any easier to use, and it works every time.
Bind zone files are an accident waiting to happen. I don't know anyone who uses it who hasn't screwed up the serial number at least once.
djb data files are far simpler, and less likely to go completely horribly wrong if you fat finger something.
On Tue, 2006-01-31 at 13:09, U n d e r a c h i e v e r wrote:
Bind really couldn't be any easier to use, and it works every time.
Bind zone files are an accident waiting to happen. I don't know anyone who uses it who hasn't screwed up the serial number at least once.
djb data files are far simpler, and less likely to go completely horribly wrong if you fat finger something.
Webmin will build bind config and zone files for you if you want something to second-guess your typing.
On Tue, 2006-01-31 at 19:09 +0000, U n d e r a c h i e v e r wrote:
On 28/1/06 16:37, in article B9ECBF8D89E7684EB63FF250E8788B1920447B@BIGLOG.thenap.com, "Drew Weaver" drew.weaver@thenap.com wrote:
Bind really couldn't be any easier to use, and it works every time.
Bind zone files are an accident waiting to happen. I don't know anyone who uses it who hasn't screwed up the serial number at least once.
djb data files are far simpler, and less likely to go completely horribly wrong if you fat finger something.
Probably true ... but bind is the DNS standard ... everything is based on it :)
Using bind (and knowing how to use bind) is the best thing (IMHO) ... especially if you do this for a living :)
sender: "Johnny Hughes" date: "Wed, Feb 01, 2006 at 09:00:26AM -0600" <<<EOQ
Bind zone files are an accident waiting to happen. I don't know anyone who uses it who hasn't screwed up the serial number at least once.
djb data files are far simpler, and less likely to go completely horribly wrong if you fat finger something.
Probably true ... but bind is the DNS standard ... everything is based on it :)
Using bind (and knowing how to use bind) is the best thing (IMHO) ... especially if you do this for a living :)
Hehe... that's quite an argument.
BTW, Windows is the most widespread desktop OS, I assume you are using a Windows desktop at home, right? :P After all why would anyone use a Linux desktop, as everyone knows is far less 'standard' and everything is based around Windows... :) In fact why do you even work on a Linux distro... when you should be building a Windows distro?!? That'd be cool... CentWos ;)
Hope my humorous intention is clear enough, I respect a lot your and all the other's work on CentOS. Great job people, even if you're working on a less than 'standard' OS, but hey, nobody's perfect... :P Except Microsoft, right? :D
Have a great day everyone, and don't forget to use the standard stuff. Just be careful what standards do you pick ;)
-- Alex, making a very nice living based on djbware stuff :D
On 1/2/06 15:00, in article 1138806026.3712.56.camel@myth.home.local, "Johnny Hughes" mailing-lists@hughesjr.com wrote:
Probably true ... but bind is the DNS standard ... everything is based on it :)
Regretably, yes.
Using bind (and knowing how to use bind) is the best thing (IMHO) ... especially if you do this for a living :)
Indeed. Reading, and understanding, the whole of the Cricket book is a must too. I maintain both BIND and DJB for a living (and others). If I have a choice for a greenfield installation, it's always DJB. Requires less maintenance and is harder to break.
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