On Thu, Dec 14, 2006 at 01:47:36PM -0600, Jacob Yocom-Piatt wrote: > after having used djbdns for a while i must suggest you not use it. when > i used to use it there was some problem where windows machines could not > query the server and i would have to restart it. the commands to > manipulate djbdns, which do not have manpages AFAICR, and its logs > totally suck, IMO. just one more thing to remember when doing admin work.
The problem you ran into was probably due to dnscache giving up on long CNAME chains. There is a trivial fix as shown in http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?t=109422162200001&r=1&w=2 but DJB refuses to fix it on the ground that only idiots would use that method of serving DNS. He is undoubtedly correct, but since the idiots at Akamai have clients such as Microsoft and Yahoo, it is a real problem for those unfortunate enough to have to deal with them. However, as I said before the fix seems to be trivial. I don't know why DJB stopped using man pages, but a couple of people have translated his html docs to man pages, for those of us who prefer them. I don't find the management or log file format to be a problem, but that's just where our personal preferences differ. > i've been using the BIND that comes with openbsd for ~6 months now and > it works great. not to mention there's also a systrace policy for it > sitting in /etc/systrace, in case you're paranoid. there are no > superfluous commands to remember either. I haven't had any problem with the OpenBSD version of BIND either. > can't say i've tried qmail, but after running djbdns for a while (~1.5 > years) i'm very much disinclined to use any of DJB's software. also, if > i'm not mistaken, there have been very few updates to djbdns's source > during the past 2 years. AFAIK, there haven't been ANY updates in over 5 years. No big deal. Emilio
