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Date:      Mon, 19 Feb 2001 10:41:15 -0800
From:      Jack Rusher <jar@integratus.com>
To:        Dan Peterson <danp@danp.net>
Cc:        arch@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: DJBDNS vs. BIND
Message-ID:  <3A9168CB.7CF4D773@integratus.com>
References:  <200102190547.WAA12829@usr05.primenet.com> <3A90CA94.D7CBCB65@softweyr.com> <20010218233916.J28286@lizzy.bugworks.com> <3A9149CC.7A1FADB8@softweyr.com> <20010219101234.A98114@danp.net>

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Dan Peterson wrote:
> 
> > Dynamic DNS?
> 
> I can't say I've ever used this. Sounds like another BIND klugde, though. It
> would probably be easier to write a simple script to edit your data file and
> rebuild data.cdb. RTFM at http://cr.yp.to/djbdns/tinydns-data.html .

  We use this extensively as part of our wide area application level
failover product.  If you can't tell the DNS server the new service
location, it's pretty hard to get requesters to redirects their requests
to the healthy server.  We could do this with a scripted hack involving
ssh, but I prefer to do this through the documented (and IETF
standardized) protocol that BIND supports.

  In short, this is important to us, not important to DJB, and he isn't
interested in contributions, so we use BIND.  I'm sure you will find a
lot of people who can quote you variations on this theme.

-- 
Jack Rusher, Senior Engineer | mailto:jar@integratus.com
Integratus, Inc.             | http://www.integratus.com


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