On December 3, 2003 04:04 pm, David Zejda wrote: > thanks for reply! > i only guess, as well as your dns depends on some database (RDBMS or LDAP > or something else), it increases the danger of attacks, especially DoS (db > is down -> dns respectively). flat files can't be "down". wouldn't be > better to generate flat files from the backend db to avoid such risks? > have you ever had such problems?
I would agree with you, others may not. It's trivial to generate appropriate zone files from a database so (assuming you want your zones in a database) I'd still go with generating the files periodically rather than having DNS constantly polling the db. > > David Zejda wrote: > > > what do you prefer for authoritative dns? > > > experiences/stability...? > > > i have no verbose bind knowledge yet. > > > > > > thanks > > > David > > > > We are running mydns on our auth name servers, feeding them data from a > > self made PHP-based web interface. Works like a charm. Only drawback is > > it's only available in testing and unstable (but most of our servers un > > testing and are rock stable) > > > > Thomas -- Fraser Campbell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> http://www.wehave.net/ Georgetown, Ontario, Canada Debian GNU/Linux
