From owner-freebsd-isp Sun Apr 1 20: 4:42 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-isp@freebsd.org Received: from mail.tgd.net (rand.tgd.net [64.81.67.117]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 1F77F37B719 for ; Sun, 1 Apr 2001 20:04:38 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from sean@mailhost.tgd.net) Received: (qmail 26822 invoked by uid 1001); 2 Apr 2001 03:04:32 -0000 Date: Sun, 1 Apr 2001 20:04:32 -0700 From: Sean Chittenden To: John Brooks Cc: freebsd-isp@freebsd.org Subject: Re: djbdns or tinydns Message-ID: <20010401200432.A26747@rand.tgd.net> References: <5.0.0.25.0.20010228000158.0436aeb0@mail.Go2France.com> <000201c0bb1a$8eacb180$0b00a8c0@dle> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha1; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="d6Gm4EdcadzBjdND" Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <000201c0bb1a$8eacb180$0b00a8c0@dle>; from "john@day-light.com" on Sun, Apr 01, 2001 at = 09:13:44PM X-PGP-Key: 0x1EDDFAAD X-PGP-Fingerprint: C665 A17F 9A56 286C 5CFB 1DEA 9F4F 5CEF 1EDD FAAD X-Web-Homepage: http://sean.chittenden.org/ Sender: owner-freebsd-isp@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org --d6Gm4EdcadzBjdND Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable I've had extremely favorable experiences with djbdns. 5,000 domains at one installation and it just ticks along, secure, small, fast, and no headaches. Two quick comments: 1) You will need _at least_ one more IP address (recursive dns server and authoritative dns server are different daemons: good thing). 2) If your clients are dhcp'd, then I'd change their DNS server address to the new recursive dns server (dnscache). 3) The data files are extremely easy to view, scan, and update via hand and from scripts/databases. 4) Move slow, a big screw up in DNS can keep you down for a while if lame large ISPs cache your data for excessively long periods of time (AOL, MSN, UU.net, and Mindspring have some dns servers that hold onto data for longer than a week ::grrrr::). I've done this plenty of times at various installations, so if you've got Q's, please feel free to ask: I endorse djbdns 98%. The remaining 2% goes to the logging philosophy: log everything, filter later. It's nice, but under extremely high load and redirecting the log to /dev/null, the tinydns is still formatting the log output. Not a biggie though. -sc On Sun, Apr 01, 2001 at 09:13:44PM -0500, John Brooks wrote: > Delivered-To: sean-freebsd-isp@chittenden.org > Delivered-To: freebsd-isp@freebsd.org > Reply-To: > From: "John Brooks" > To: > Subject: djbdns or tinydns > Date: Sun, 1 Apr 2001 21:13:44 -0500 > X-Priority: 3 (Normal) > X-MSMail-Priority: Normal > X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook 8.5, Build 4.71.2173.0 > In-Reply-To: <5.0.0.25.0.20010228000158.0436aeb0@mail.Go2France.com> > X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.00.2615.200 > Importance: Normal > X-Loop: FreeBSD.org > Precedence: bulk >=20 > Has anyone had favorable experience with tinydns in place of bind? Would > anyone recommend using it on a colo server authoritative for less than 100 > domains? I'm interested in opinions with *short* reasons - before I > seriously consider it. ;-) >=20 > -- > John >=20 >=20 >=20 > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-isp" in the body of the message --=20 Sean Chittenden --d6Gm4EdcadzBjdND Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Comment: Sean Chittenden iEYEARECAAYFAjrH7EAACgkQn09c7x7d+q1n8ACggrWB29YUud7NhZKzez0irKNB dOQAoJiQeutqlmstGwln3DmMu9VZZ7cy =23sU -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --d6Gm4EdcadzBjdND-- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-isp" in the body of the message