Dents -- Bind alternative?

Mon Nov 30 01:19:28 UTC 1998

Just saw an announcement for Dents ( http://www.dents.org/ ) on
comp.os.linux.announce. This is supposedly a (future) replacement for
BIND, as a DNS server. It has some cool ideas (dynamic zones, open storage
interface, control interface, etc), but it looks like it's a work in
progress. 

Has anyone looked at this? It seems like it could (theoretically) address
several of the DNS issues that have been discussed here and on inet-access
lately.

I'm not quite sure I understand why these features weren't just
contributed to BIND, but maybe it is time for a fresh start... 

Pete.

P.S. Looks like one of the participants works for Mindspring, but there
doesn't appear to be any association between this project and Mindspring.

---------- Forwarded message ----------
From: Todd Graham Lewis <tlewis at mindspring.net>
Newsgroups: comp.os.linux.announce
Subject: Dents v0.0.1 - a DNS server
Date: Sat, 28 Nov 1998 12:59:06 GMT

ANNOUNCEMENT
============

We announce the first public release of Dents, an implementation of
the Domain Name Service, as defined in RFC 1035 and others.  Dents  was
designed and implemented by Johannes Erdfelt (jerdfelt at sventech.com)
and Todd Lewis (tlewis at mindspring.com), with Johannes doing most of
the real work.  We release it under the terms of the GNU General Public
License, Version 2, with the proviso that one cannot upgrade to future
versions of the GPL without the permission of Johannes Erdfelt
and Todd Lewis.