Jake schrieb: > Good morning: > > We're about to start moving our public DNS to in-house managed > servers. My first thought was "Linux + BIND" and we're done. Someone > in another business unit's IT dept. has suggested tinydns be used. > >From what I could find, it looks like this software hasn't really had > any community drive behind it in a while. The latest RPMs on rpmforge > are for red hat 6 and red hat 7. I very much dislike the idea of > compiling my own because of all the overhead associated with making > sure the system stays up-to-date and so on so this really puts me off > already. Does anyone have an opinion on this software? It seems to > have some strong virtues but maybe not enough to justify using it over > BIND just because any Linux admin we hire could be expected to know > BIND. > > Thanks for your time, > > djbdns is OK - if you have some frontend that prepares the data-files for it. Otherwise, don't bother. Well, the same is true in some way for BIND - if you have more than a dozen or so zones with frequent updates, you'll swear, too. Just different swear-words ;-) How many zones do you manage, BTW? Also, if you need IPV6 etc - djbdns is not really predestined for this.... Rainer