On Sat Sep 29, 2001 at 03:58:47AM +0800, Franki wrote:
> I am curious,, about a domain name server called djbdns... from the guy that
> wrote Qmail...
>
> It is tiny compared to BIND, and runs in a chroot jail as a non root
> user....
>
> Its also kinda cool when the author offers money to anyone that can find a
> security flaw, gives you a sense of confidence..
>
> We run a dns server that gets scanned for bind flaws regurlarly.. and it
> seems to make sense to swap to a more secure DNS server then BIND, (I can't
> keep up with the number of BIND flaws.. its the sendmail of DNS as far as I
> am concerned.)
>
> Does anyone know if there is any djbdns for mandrake RPM's ???
Yup. Go to www.freezer-burn.org/djbdns.php for a mandrake howto with
djbdns and go to www.rpmhelp.net/ for packages for 7.2, 8.0, and
(soon) 8.1.
> I could compile the source, but I would rather use an RPM (actually
> preferably a src rpm that I can rebuild)
>
> also I figure if its an mandrake RPM, it would be easier to configure
> rather then starting from scratch with the tarball...
>
> Does anyone know of any "simplistic explanation of setting up djbdns??
>
> any tips at all??
See the Freezer Burn page noted above... should be about all you need.
Be warned that djbdns is *very* different from bind so if you don't
have time time/patience to learn a very different system, you may want
to find something else.
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