On Sun, Feb 18, 2001 at 03:35:21PM -0800, Alex Le Fevre wrote:
> I'm looking at hosting a bunch of web sites in the
> coming months whose addresses would be
> company.domainIhave.com. I don't want to pay some
> stupid registrar to take care of my DNS, so I'm
> looking to set it up myself. My question is, which is
> better -- the BIND 4.x which comes with OBSD 2.8, or
> DJBDNS, which I've heard about elsewhere? If the
> second, how tough is it to install and configure?
I don't know about djbdns, but you could not pay me
to run Bind 4.x no matter what project it came from or how
it was reviewed. ISC has made it quite clear that Bind 4.x is
deprecated, no if ands or buts about it, and having someone
else support it is like having someone else support buggy
whips just because the original manufacturer has declared
horse buggies are antiquated.
It has none of the security enhancements like fine grained
access controls that were added to Bind 8 and above and has no
support for things like key records (but I would be amazed if
djbdns had them either). I'm currently running Bind 9.1.0 and quite
happy. But I watch it like a hawk too.
> Thanks for your input.
> Alex Le Fevre
Mike
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