[plug] BIND9 or djbdns

[chris]

On Sun, 2004-08-01 at 22:08, Russell Steicke wrote:
> On Sun, Aug 01, 2004 at 09:51:27PM +0800, chris wrote:
> > Hello,
> > 
> > I'm looking at a dns tool called: djbdns (http://cr.yp.to/djbdns.html)
> > It appears to be much easier to setup and chroot than BIND9 but it does
> > not appear to be open source. What are your thoughts on this program? Is
> > it worth using or should I use BIND instead?
> 
> Definitely worth using (IMHO), but also definitely does not meet the
> open source definitiion or the Debian Free Software Guidelines, as DJB
> won't allow distribution of modified sources, so any changes get
> published as patches, like what happens with qmail for exactly the same
> reason.
> 
> It's easy to get going, but will make your head spin for a while if you
> have a BIND mindset to start with.
> 
> However, if you want to install it on debian, there is a
> djbdns-installer package in contrib that side-steps the distribution
> requirement by downloading the source, patching on your machine, and
> making a deb right there.  It requires that you install ucspi-tcp-src
> (also available from contrib) and make the ucspi-tcp deb first, but
> that's just as easy.
> 
> 
> 

Thanks James and Russell. I see that he doesn't want derivative works
because he wants to keep it under control.

I will try it out at some future time.

thanks,

Chris