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Date:      Thu, 29 Dec 2005 12:14:36 -0600
From:      Kirk Strauser <kirk@strauser.com>
To:        freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Going from bind9 to djbdns
Message-ID:  <200512291214.41005.kirk@strauser.com>
In-Reply-To: <cb2fd381bed.43b422ff@broadpark.no>
References:  <cb2fd381bed.43b422ff@broadpark.no>

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On Thursday 29 December 2005 10:55, Kristian Vaaf wrote:
> Hello!
>
> My friend, who hosts most of my stuff, is using djbdns. Probably for
> security and simplicity.

1) BIND 9 is a whole different animal from BIND <=8, with many fewer 
vulnerabilities.

2) In this case, "simplicity" means "staggering lack of functionality" - no 
IXFR, dynamic DNS, etc.

> Anyway I thought I'd do the same. But I'm having serious difficulties
> finding a user-friendly howto.

DJB hates users.  They do pesky things like find vulnerabilities in his code 
and make him work to find a reason to blame them on something else.
-- 
Kirk Strauser

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