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| AuthorHelen 2002-11-28, 6:23 pm |
| There is also benefit in using DNS software that is not the same as what most everyone else uses. You're running software that is a less interesting target for crackers, because it's not as widely deployed, and thus may run a lower risk of being successfully attacked (at least, through DNS). | |
| Mr. Linux Guy 2002-11-28, 8:51 pm |
| quote:
Originally posted by Adorik
hi,
well i am not a linux fan 
Blasphemy! | |
| chodan 2002-11-29, 9:53 pm |
| I would like to see stats on what the percentage of DNS servers are BIND or windows DNS or other versions of DNS.
I am a fan of Linux but in all honesty I don't know enough about it to be deploying services on it right now.
I don't have time to learn it well enough either.
If I had people dedicated to that it would be different.
But I don't  | |
| Mr. Linux Guy 2002-11-30, 6:43 am |
| Yeah, I hear you. The learning curve is mighty steep. I already have it running on most of my servers, along with HP-UX and OpenBSD and being a UNIX nerd, I no longer have the learning problem. Once deployed, it is a great platform, but starting to use it takes a lot of getting used to and once mostpeople have something that works, they stick with it. | |
| chodan 2002-11-30, 11:18 am |
| yeah
I used bind 8.x for 3 years after upgrading from version 4.
I wanted it to be more secure and bind 8.x has to many holes, and as I'm finding out so does version 9.x
I tried version 9 but couldn't get past a few hurdles.
In all the documentation I couldn't find a good comlete example of a zone file.
I had to learn by trial and error and even after I thought I had all my ducks in a row and everything resolved from our network none of the external dns queries would resolve, it was as if they weren't even there.
The Bind forum was next to useless.
So My net admin suggested migrating to windows 2000 and about 2 days later it was migrated over and one more day to work out any bugs. It was a simple proccess.
It even allowed us to use our old version 8 zone files to do the migration. | |
| Mr. Linux Guy 2002-12-01, 6:33 am |
| quote:
Originally posted by chodan
yeah
I used bind 8.x for 3 years after upgrading from version 4.
I wanted it to be more secure and bind 8.x has to many holes, and as I'm finding out so does version 9.x
I tried version 9 but couldn't get past a few hurdles.
In all the documentation I couldn't find a good comlete example of a zone file.
I had to learn by trial and error and even after I thought I had all my ducks in a row and everything resolved from our network none of the external dns queries would resolve, it was as if they weren't even there.
The Bind forum was next to useless.
So My net admin suggested migrating to windows 2000 and about 2 days later it was migrated over and one more day to work out any bugs. It was a simple proccess.
It even allowed us to use our old version 8 zone files to do the migration.
You shoulda posted yur BIND probs in the Linux forum.  I'd be glad to help with any probs you might have.
P.S. If you think BIND is bad, don't try managing sendmail . . . ugh . . . that'ssomething that is hard to forget . . . |
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