From owner-freebsd-arch Sun Feb 18 23:16:10 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-arch@freebsd.org Received: from homer.softweyr.com (bsdconspiracy.net [208.187.122.220]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5384A37B65D for ; Sun, 18 Feb 2001 23:16:05 -0800 (PST) Received: from [127.0.0.1] (helo=softweyr.com ident=Fools trust ident!) by homer.softweyr.com with esmtp (Exim 3.16 #1) id 14Uki4-0000SJ-00; Mon, 19 Feb 2001 00:26:13 -0700 Message-ID: <3A90CA94.D7CBCB65@softweyr.com> Date: Mon, 19 Feb 2001 00:26:12 -0700 From: Wes Peters Organization: Softweyr LLC X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.75 [en] (X11; U; Linux 2.2.12 i386) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Terry Lambert Cc: josb@cncdsl.com, arch@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: DJBDNS vs. BIND References: <200102190547.WAA12829@usr05.primenet.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-arch@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Terry Lambert wrote: > > > > Please don't. DJBDNS lacks significant and important functionality > > > for all but trivial (one controller or single zone) uses. > > > > Maybe you should tell Dan what functionality you think is missing, and see > > what he says. There are very good reasons behind djbdns's current feature set. > > I think the license is a show stopper, anyway. Somwthing so basic > has got to be locally hackable, and the hacked code has got to be > distributable. Some of the assumptions behind the operation of djbdns may not hold true for your installation. That, along with the unmaintainability of the software fails to convince me it is a viable replacement for BIND. -- "Where am I, and what am I doing in this handbasket?" Wes Peters Softweyr LLC wes@softweyr.com http://softweyr.com/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-arch" in the body of the message