advice and pointers on Apache, Bind/DNS, Ubuntu

[Lennart Sorensen]

On Tue, Oct 31, 2006 at 09:51:41PM -0500, Ian Petersen wrote:
> 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.

Too bad he has that license concept, and believes in microsoft
filesystem layout rather than unix style layout.  Might be worth looking
at otherwise.  To me it is a 'do one thing and do it exactly my way'.

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