BIND 9.1.2 and TinyDNS???

[James Raftery]

On Mon, Jun 11, 2001 at 06:11:59PM +0200, Brad Knowles wrote:
> 	Thank you for pointing out this URL.  Right there on the same 
> page (one paragraph down) is a note that TinyDNS does not support the 
> use of TCP by default, which I consider to be another big problem.

Small tools, doing a single task and doing it well. tinydns does UDP
auth. service. axfrdns does TCP auth. service. They're two components of
djbdns. (dig @tinydns.domainregistry.ie ie soa +vc)

> 	Less stable in general.  Think about encryption algorithms.  You 
> absolutely never want to trust one, just because it was written by 
> someone who theoretically knows what he's doing. [snip]
> 	Fundamentally, TinyDNS (and all of Dan's DNS-related programs) 
> simply have not existed for a long enough period of time

Conversely, BIND8 has existed for long enough, and had sufficient
numbers of serious problems uncovered for me to have serious doubts
about it. I guess we're looking at the same argument but from exact
opposite points of view.

> 	Who are they?  Where are they?  How big are they?  How much 
> experience do they have?

No idea. They're listed under "Commercial Support" at
http://tinydns.org/

> Having just a mailing list for support doesn't do 
> you any good when your nameserver is down and you can't send and/or 
> receive mail, and you can't afford to wait for help.

No contest there. But that doesn't mean one should discount a
mailing-list as a valid souce of support (for any software) just because
it's not perfect in all situations.

> <ftp://ftp.cup.hp.com/dist/networking/briefs/>.  I challenge you to 
> come anywhere close to those numbers with TinyDNS.

I decline your challenge :)

BIND and djbdns have their own merits and demerits. I don't think either
deserves to be summarily dismissed. 

james
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