advice and pointers on Apache, Bind/DNS, Ubuntu

[Ian Petersen]

> I didn't realize djbdns and tinydns were the same thing.
> I'd heard of tinydns recently, but I was searching for
> lightweight dns.

djbdns is the name of the whole package.  The package includes (at
least) two separate programmes: tinydns and dnscache.  My
understanding is that BIND does everything you could possibly want to
do as related to DNS in one (rather large) process.  On the other
hand, tinydns is _just_ an authoratative nameserver, and dnscache is
_just_ a recursive resolver.  Dr. Bernstein is rather adamant about
adhering to the Unix philosophy of "do one thing and do it well" so
each seperable function of BIND is separated in djbdns.

> The data format for djbdns seems much easier to deal
> with. I'm just about to try installing it. Thanks for
> the pointer.

No problem.  If you run a mail server, you may also be interested in
qmail and bincimap (http://www.bincimap.org).  Qmail is also by DJB
and I find it similarly easy to administer.  Bincimap (Binc is not
Courier) is an IMAP server designed to work well with qmail.

Ian

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