Contributed by jose on from the better-dns-servers dept.
"I know today I'm supposed to write "special" news. But in Latinamerica that date is Dec 28, so off I go with some interesting tidbit. After much discussion on the reliability and standards adherence of BIND (like stating that A6 records should be used and AAAA deprecated even thouth the former have been reintated as "experimental") I found a nice, relatively secure DNS server with a BSD license: MaraDNS http://www.maradns.org/ It still doesn't supports IPv6. And supposedly was developed on Linux. But it seems to have been tested on OpenBSD. I think it's worth a look."I've heard good things about MaraDNS, but I don't know if it's seen enough action. How well has it been performing? I know I'm not terribly pleased with BIND, even after OpenBSD's changes. Has anyone tested the version in ports who wants to give us a review?
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By Joe Abley () jabley@isc.org on http://www.isc.org/
So where did you get the idea that A6 records are promoted in favour of AAAA records in BIND?
While A6 was the standards-track proposal for IPv6, that's what BIND promoted. Now that IPv6 has moved to experimental, and AAAA is the standards-track proposal, that's what BIND promotes.
There are several good alternatives to BIND, and diversity of implementation is always good, but criticising BIND for following internet standards seems strange and wrong.
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By Alejandro Belluscio () baldusi@hotmail.com on mailto:baldusi@hotmail.com
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By mirabile () on http://MirBSD.BSDadvocacy.org/
I've to manually create the ip6.arpa PTRs.
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djb has placed a restrictive license on the software saying it can only be distributed and packaged/installed the way he specifies. This breaks openbsd's clean directory structure.
developers personalities aside, djbdns is a good tool to use, and is fairly easy to use (as long as things don't go wrong). I recommend it even if i think the author is a bit foolish when choosing the battles he wants to fight.
By mirabile () on http://MirBSD.BSDadvocacy.org/
$ cvs -qz9 -d mirbsd-cvs@bsdadvocacy.org:/cvs co -PA ports/net/djbdns
Password is "anoncvs"
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By Alejandro Belluscio () baldusi@hotmail.com on mailto:baldusi@hotmail.com
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In replies to those e-mails, there were several talking about setting MaraDNS up on sourceforge (or another CVS server), and hence allowing other people to keep developing MaraDNS.
A lot of people, including myself, like MaraDNS quite a bit. I wouldn't be surprised if more than one person stepped up and offered to maintain the (currently) unstable branch. Here's hoping.
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By Jeroen Ruigrok van der Werven () asmodai@tendra.org on http://www.tendra.org/
a colleague and myself have been looking at helping develop it. I need to get in touch with Sam. :)
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Fast, secure, excellent in every way.
-OSCAR
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By Dave () on
I personaly couldn't give a toss what the licence says. It's free as in beer and it's works a treat. I'm not on some moral crusade I just want my DNS to work and djbdns does the trick.
ta-ra
Dave.
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be wary of what Anonymous Cowardon states as absolute. djbdns forces you to break HIER(7) on your openbsd system.
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By mirabile () on http://MirBSD.BSDadvocacy.org/
See my other post. That's a port of djbdns with
and without IPv6 support.
I have daemontools 0.76 (not 0.70 ;) as well,
in ports/sysutils/daemontools.
And everything installs where it belongs to.
By Jedi/Sector One () j@pureftpd.org on http://www.pureftpd.org/
For those who have something against the license, have a look at SheerDNS :
http://threading.2038bug.com/sheerdns/
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By Troll Hunter D () on
http://cr.yp.to/djbdns/tinydns.html
To answer the question you should have thought about for a moment before asking: yes.
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www.powerdns.com
they went GPL about a half a year ago.
GPL, IPv6, MySQL/PGSQL/LDAP.
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One of the features that has been added to the development version, is very impressive, and I hope to see it in a stable version (and other DNS servers as well).
Expired DNS records ARE NOT purged! That's right, older records are removed only when they are not popular, and the cache needs more room to store new records.
If a request is made after the record has expired, it tries to get an update from the upstream DNS server, and uses that. If it cannot get an update after the timeout period, it will continue to use the expired record. What this means is that, even if all the DNS servers are knocked off the internet, as many records as could fit in your DNS cache, will still be available to users of your DNS server.
This is obviously a very simple, but very good solution to the problem of Root/TLD server unavailability. Customers of large ISPs, which use MaraDNS, will still be able to access a huge number of sites (and definately will have access to the most popular sites) even if no DNS servers are available.
In addition, sites with incredibly short expirations, will not experience this change. This should prevent any problems with those unusual sites which need such a behavior.
In other words, everyone should use MaraDNS.