From owner-freebsd-isp Mon Sep 30 17:48:21 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-isp@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6636A37B401 for ; Mon, 30 Sep 2002 17:48:20 -0700 (PDT) Received: from web1.nexusinternetsolutions.net (web1.nexusinternetsolutions.net [206.47.131.12]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with SMTP id A7B5A43E4A for ; Mon, 30 Sep 2002 17:48:19 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from dave@hawk-systems.com) Received: (qmail 23546 invoked from network); 1 Oct 2002 00:48:18 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO ws1) (24.157.103.51) by web1.nexusinternetsolutions.net with SMTP; 1 Oct 2002 00:48:18 -0000 From: "Dave [Hawk-Systems]" To: "Jan Knepper" , "FreeBSD ISP" Subject: RE: DNS (bind or djbdns or ???) Date: Mon, 30 Sep 2002 20:48:17 -0400 Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 (Normal) X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook IMO, Build 9.0.2416 (9.0.2911.0) In-Reply-To: <3D98C5B9.6040506@digitaldaemon.com> X-MIMEOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2800.1106 Importance: Normal Sender: owner-freebsd-isp@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org >I am currently running bind, but am investigating switching to djbdns. >However a quick look told me that I will have to install daemontools too >when I want to get that to work. Is this true? >Any comments/advice please??? >Thanks! >Jan Word to the wise, do not compare BIND and DJBDNS... both camps will argue the finer points forever. BIND users will argue that you just don't know how to use it, and DJB apostles will counter with BIND is broke, and the viscious cycle will continue... personally I find DJB's solution to DNS adminsitration easier to use, propogate and automate for the application I use it for (ISP adminsitration), and that is with 5 years of BIND under my belt. Needless to say, there are plenty of qwerks with both camps. More to your question though... You do not HAVE to use daemontools AFAIK. However it is a nice package that you may want to investigate thoroughly before you outright dismiss it. Personally, I moved a few processes into the service realm for easy management. Again, wouldn't use it for everything, but it is a usefull package. Check the djbdns mail list for further clarification http://cr.yp.to/lists.html#dns Dave To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-isp" in the body of the message