Opinion on djbDNS?

Brad Knowles brad.knowles at skynet.be
Sun Mar 11 19:23:38 UTC 2001


At 12:01 PM +0000 3/10/01, Frederic Faure wrote:

>  We've set up Dan Berstein's djbDNS as our internal DNS recently, and
>  like it very much. Still, I'd like to hear from people who have tried
>  using it as a replacement for BIND in big organizations.

	IIRC, it doesn't hand out referrals when asked questions outside 
of the zones it is authoritative for.  This means that it violates 
the DNS protocols, among other things.

	It also doesn't handle IPv6, TSIG, or any of the other advanced 
features of the DNS.


	In short, I do not consider it to be a viable replacement for 
BIND, not even for the simplest of possible tasks.

--
Brad Knowles, <brad.knowles at skynet.be>

#!/usr/bin/perl -w
# 531-byte qrpff-fast, Keith Winstein and Marc Horowitz <sipb-iap-dvd at mit.edu>
# MPEG 2 PS VOB file on stdin -> descrambled output on stdout
# arguments: title key bytes in least to most-significant order
# Usage:
# qrpff 153 2 8 105 225 /mnt/dvd/VOB_FILE_NAME | extract_mpeg2 | mpeg2_dec -
$_='while(read+STDIN,$_,2048){$a=29;$b=73;$c=142;$t=255;@t=map{$_%16or$t^=$c^=(
$m=(11,10,116,100,11,122,20,100)[$_/16%8])&110;$t^=(72, at z=(64,72,$a^=12*($_%16
-2?0:$m&17)),$b^=$_%64?12:0, at z)[$_%8]}(16..271);if((@a=unx"C*",$_)[20]&48){$h
=5;$_=unxb24,join"", at b=map{xB8,unxb8,chr($_^$a[--$h+84])}@ARGV;s/...$/1$&/;$
d=unxV,xb25,$_;$e=256|(ord$b[4])<<9|ord$b[3];$d=$d>>8^($f=$t&($d>>12^$d>>4^
$d^$d/8))<<17,$e=$e>>8^($t&($g=($q=$e>>14&7^$e)^$q*8^$q<<6))<<9,$_=$t[$_]^
(($h>>=8)+=$f+(~$g&$t))for at a[128..$#a]}print+x"C*", at a}';s/x/pack+/g;eval


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