[CentOS] tinydns/djbdns opinion poll

Mon Feb 9 16:05:48 UTC 2009
Ray Van Dolson <rayvd at bludgeon.org>

On Mon, Feb 09, 2009 at 07:58:38AM -0800, centos at 911networks.com wrote:
> On Mon, 9 Feb 2009 10:22:42 -0500
> Jake <jakepaulus at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> > >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
> 
> 1. DJBDNS does not need to be maintained: IT'S PERFECT. Bugless, no
> security hole... and does NOT support IPv6.
> 2. It's  great, works like a rock.
> 3. Everything you need to know, including winning the loto, is at:
> http://www.lifewithdjbdns.com/
> with all the explanations and the installation is toward the end of
> the page.

Wasn't it released to public domain along with qmail?  Surprised
someone hasn't packaged this up for Fedora/EPEL yet if so.

Maybe there was some hesitancy based on questions around its public
domain status?

I'm more familiar with BIND, but used djbdns at a previous job and it
worked very well.

Ray