On 20 Oct 2014 12:41, "Boris Epstein" <borepstein at gmail.com> wrote: > > sshd is not a telnetd-type servide yet it uses a .socket file. So I thought > djbdns should as well. > It can be run that way as an option: http://0pointer.de/blog/projects/inetd.html > As for why DJBDNS - we have used it for a long time due to the security > advantages. And yes, BIND is now much better than it used to be and we may > switch to it at some point but for now we are still trying to get DJBDNS to > work. > If you are using the 1.05 tar from the djb site this is a very bad idea - see previous links for reasons. > I am close - when I start it manually and when I use it locally. So all I > need to do is figure out how to start it automatically as well as how to > open the necessary ports in the firewall. > The correct answer here to ease your maintenance burden if you insist in djbdns is to use the ndjbdns package in epel that has already been mentioned.