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[Patrick Nichols]

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On Fri, Sep 26, 2003 at 11:06:14AM +1000, Greg Black wrote:

> don't seem able to distinguish between DNS and BIND.  There are
> other DNS options, such as djbdns, maradns, mydns-mysql, nsd,
> posadis and powerdns (to mention the ones I can remember right
> now) and you may want to learn about them too.

If all you are after is something to point your local machines at, and
specify a few machine names in, pdnsd is a really easy to use
implementation.

It uses the /etc/hosts to specify machines on your local lan, and also
acts as a cacheing nameserver for your machines to use as their dns
server.

I can't vouch for it's security capabilities, and would only use it on
a protected lan, but for home use it is very easy to use.  (It may be
ok, but I've no idea if there are security holes.)  As a "I just want
to set up a few machines for local dns" tool, you can quickly accomplish
this without learning about zone files, which are confusing for the
beginner and probably what has stopped you from using bind already.

Sure if you have the time and the inclination (or necessity) to learn
and use bind it could be the bee's knees, but I've run out of patience
for learning about a whole protocol to just set up something simple.

It's available in debian too.

[mutton:~$] apt-cache show pdnsd
Package: pdnsd
Priority: optional
Section: net
Installed-Size: 464
Maintainer: Takuo KITAME <kitame at debian.org>
Architecture: i386
Version: 1.1.8b1par5-1
Depends: libc6 (>= 2.3.1-1), adduser
Conflicts: dnrd
Filename: pool/main/p/pdnsd/pdnsd_1.1.8b1par5-1_i386.deb
Size: 161608
MD5sum: 3fcee3cb152c2c315c2d138f92dd07a5
Description: Proxy DNS Server
 pdnsd is a proxy dns server with permanent caching (the cache contents are
 written to hard disk on exit) that is designed to cope with unreachable or
 down dns servers (for example in dial-in networking).
 pdnsd can be used with applications that do dns lookups, eg on startup, and
 can't be configured to change that behaviour, to prevent the often minute-long
 hangs (or even crashes) that result from stalled dns queries.
 Some Netscape Navigator versions for Unix, for example, expose this behaviour.
 .
 And it's IPv6 capable.

Hope this helps.

--
Patrick



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