From owner-freebsd-stable Sat Jan 27 15:32:20 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from shemp.palomine.net (shemp.palomine.net [205.198.88.200]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 956AC37B400 for ; Sat, 27 Jan 2001 15:32:03 -0800 (PST) Received: (qmail 9924 invoked by uid 1000); 27 Jan 2001 23:31:47 -0000 Date: Sat, 27 Jan 2001 18:31:47 -0500 From: Chris Johnson To: Mike Atkinson Cc: stable@freebsd.org Subject: Re: more strange DNS issues in BIND and STABLE. Message-ID: <20010127183147.A9810@palomine.net> References: <4.2.2.20010127001841.03015358@marble.sentex.net> <034601c08827$b8e08d80$1385f1d8@kconline.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i In-Reply-To: <034601c08827$b8e08d80$1385f1d8@kconline.com>; from mikea@kconline.com on Sat, Jan 27, 2001 at 01:09:34AM -0500 Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Sat, Jan 27, 2001 at 01:09:34AM -0500, Mike Atkinson wrote: > We've reverted to an earlier version of named which seems to have at least > reduced the problem to an intermittent one instead of continuous failure to > resolve (as far as Sendmail was concerned.) One solution to all of these BIND problems that nobody has mentioned yet is to use something other than BIND for DNS. I've been using Dan Bernstein's djbdns with great success since its early alpha days. Like everything he writes (most notably qmail), it's small, robust, and secure, and it just plain works. http://cr.yp.to/djbdns.html Chris To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message