[afnog] DNS service

[Todd Underwood]

hi,

On Mon, Jul 16, 2007 at 03:34:37PM +0100, Aline Flore Jounewe [ MTNCameroon Infrastructure Planning - MTN House ] wrote:
> Y'ellow
> 
> I would like to run both: authoritative and caching/Recursive to serve
> customers.
> 
> Amont all what you listed here, what would you recommend and why?

i'm a personal fan of djbdns.  it includes an authoritative server
(tinydns) and a recursive resolver (dnscache).  i like the fact that
these are separate programs as it makes it easier to understand how
separate these functions are (and should be).  i like how secure the
code written by djb (djbdns, qmail, daemontools) is.  i like how fast
and simple they are.  i like his documentation
(http://cr.yp.to/djbdns.html) because it has common tasks, like 'run
an external cache for your network':
http://cr.yp.to/djbdns/run-cache-x.html that are straightforward and
easy to understand.

bind is more widely used and you may find others who know it well, in
which case it would be a better choice for you.

good luck,

t.

> 
> Thank you for your inputs
> 
> Aline Flore Jounewe
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: Phil Regnauld [mailto:regnauld at x0.dk] 
> Sent: lundi 16 juillet 2007 15:21
> To: Aline Flore Jounewe [ MTNCameroon Infrastructure Planning - MTN
> House ]
> Cc: afnog at afnog.org
> Subject: Re: [afnog] DNS service
> 
> Aline Flore Jounewe [ MTNCameroon Infrastructure Planning - MTN House  ]
> (Jounew_A) writes:
> >  
> > As I am planning to implement a DNS service for ISP, I would like to
> > find out from you what are the most reliable and powerful platforms to
> > deploy it?
> > 
> > 1.	Unix
> > 2.	Linux
> > 3.	Microsoft
> 
> 	UNIX/Linux is the same thing.
> 
> 	What kind of DNS service ?  Authoritative ? (hosting zones)
> 	Caching/Recursive (to serve clients) ?  Or both ?
> 
> 	There are several software candidates to fit your bill,
> including
> 	BIND, NSD, PowerDNS, tinydns depending on your needs.
> 
> > Based on your suggestion, would you please provide some motivation?
> 
> 	Well, running Windows as an OS to serve DNS outside of a
> corporate
> 	environment is considered overkill, and even Microsoft
> recommends
> 	not using MS DNS in this setup.
> 
> 
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