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From: Greg Black <gjb at gbch.net>
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Subject: Re: [H-GEN] caching nameserver 
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Sandra Milne wrote:

| Anyone got any recommendations for a caching nameserver? Our hub on @home 
| has been a bit dodgy lately with forwarding dns requests so we'd like to 
| try our own for those situations. Plus I could always use the experience of 
| setting something new up :-)

If you're interested in a constantly moving target that is
riddled with security bugs and (especially in the latest
incarnation) with plain bugs, then BIND is the perfect choice.

If you'd like something light weight, reliable, secure and not
subject to constant change, try <http://cr.yp.to/djbdns.html>.

And be aware that this topic produces a lot of heat in some of
the people with opinions, but most of that is nonsense.  By all
means, play with one or more DNS implementations -- it's pretty
simple to setup and use either of those mentioned above.

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