[olug] DNS recommendation?

[William Langford]

There's the HOWTO's ...

Or... you can install bind, turn it on, and then take the lazy way out 
and install something like Webmin for simplifying the configuration of 
the server.  If you do use webmin, the only thing ya might have to 
configure by hand would be the DDNS <> DHCPD stuff if you use it.

I've been using Webmin over the past month or so.... and it simplifies 
things alot. Especially in the multi-distro environment i'm in...

-Will


Adam Lassek wrote:

>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.
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>On Sat, 6 Nov 2004 16:19:24 -0500, unfie at cox.net <unfie at cox.net> wrote:
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>>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.
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>>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.
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>>-Will
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>>>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?
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>>>On Nov 5, 2004, at 10:34 AM, <thelarsons3 at cox.net > wrote:
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>>>>I've heard that BIND is big, slow, and a security risk.  Is this true?
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>>>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?
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>>>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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