[olug] DNS recommendation?

[Adam Lassek]

Does anyone know of a HOWTO for setting up DNS on a small home
network? The guides I have read so far seem to go into way more detail
than I need and end up just confusing me.


On Sat, 6 Nov 2004 16:19:24 -0500, unfie at cox.net <unfie at cox.net> wrote:
> Learn the defacto tool, that way if you ever decide to try something else, you'll already be familiar with what just about everything else is based on or similar to.
> 
> I've used BIND for a small business for a couple years and generally don't have any complaints.  It's not a wide scale deployment, mind you.
> 
> -Will
> 
> >
> > From: Jay Hannah <jay at jays.net >
> > Date: 2004/11/06 Sat AM 10:04:13 EST
> > To: Omaha Linux User Group <olug at olug.org >
> > Subject: Re: [olug] DNS recommendation?
> 
> 
> >
> >
> > On Nov 5, 2004, at 10:34 AM, <thelarsons3 at cox.net > wrote:
> > > I've heard that BIND is big, slow, and a security risk.  Is this true?
> >
> > BIND has never failed me. I've never needed any other, and BIND has
> > always been there, ready to go on every distro I've ever used. Why not
> > learn such a simple and ubiquitous tool?
> >
> > Unless you're an ISP I predict your time and energy spent leaving BIND
> > won't buy you any noticeable improvement for any metric. If the R&D is
> > fun, feel free. I'd still learn BIND first if I were you so you have
> > the knowledge to tweak what you'll find by default on the vast majority
> > of servers you run into.
> >
> > j
> >
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