djbdns: An alternative to BIND

Sat Apr 9 03:05:20 UTC 2005

On Sat, 9 Apr 2005, Niek wrote:
>
> On 4/9/2005 3:46 AM +0100, Nathan Ward wrote:
> > - I was forced to use DJBs naming conventions for zones
> If you administer 2-3 domains, sure it's an hassle, if not, put code-monkeys
> to work. Most script people I know love the tinydns zone structure in comparison
> to bind's one.

because instead of MX you have . or + or - or : or something so helpfully
meaningful... same for NS and A and CNAME... Yes, 1 more level of
indirection is not always a good thing.

-chris
(not that I dislike djbdns, i just don't understand why things have to be
'different' so very much... and if bind works, why use djbdns?)