Advice for personal dns server
Jonathan de Boyne Pollard
J.deBoynePollard at Tesco.NET
Thu Nov 18 04:42:51 UTC 2004
A> The OS will be one of the BSD's or Linuxes (I will pick the one that
A> runs the fastest and most stable on the Sparc).
Here's a wild thought: You could always run Solaris.
A> Is Bind a good choice for me?
You're posting in a discussion forum dedicated to BIND. What answer, to
that question, do you *think* you are going to receive?
A> What is most important in terms of hardware? cpu? memory?
First: It's complex. Second: You forgot "network".
A> If anyone can point me to some quick reads/faq's/howto's, [...]
First, learn about the wide range of DNS softwares that there is.
<URL:http://cr.yp.to/djbdns/other.html>
<URL:http://maradns.org./dns_software.html>
Neither of these lists are anywhere near complete. Amusingly, neither
includes the fourth most popular (for content DNS service) DNS server
software: Microsoft's DNS server.
A> I woul appreciate it, because I really couldn't find any.
Look harder.
<URL:http://cr.yp.to/djbdns/run-cache.html>
<URL:http://ntcanuck.com./>
<URL:http://maradns.org./tutorial/recursive.html>
<URL:http://doc.powerdns.com./>
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