Anyone ever used djbdns?

regi

If you have, do you have any handy resources for it? I need to get it up and running on two servers and I need to learn a bit about it

tHE vAGGABOND

Yes, it's fab!!

http://cr.yp.to/djbdns.html (author's site) and

http://tinydns.org/
(user's site)

Who says unix geeks are usless

moist

Its pretty good, Though I have come accross one or two irritating things about it.
Well, one actually.
When your specifying the contact address in the SOA for a reverse subnetwith a '.' record,
djb automagically sticks hostmaster on the front.
Thus for the 192.168.1 subnet, your contact would be hostmaster.1.168.192.in-addr.arpa
Which could have its advantages., however RIPE's script to check your DNS configuration
barfs at this, so you have to do roundabouts with 'Z' '&' and '=' records.

Of course DJB has a retort for this, he says just use the '.' record, make hostmaster@1.168.192.in-addr.arpa
deliverable and go bleet at RIPE to fix their script.
*shrug*
It could be handy in that *if* the (say) .ie tld name servers borked, people could still get mail through to your contact.


Actually, has anyone used djb for subdeligation for reverse CIDR subnets ?
i.e. say I have the 192.168.1 class C but I
want to poing 192.168.1.96/28 at a customers
name server so that they can look after
the reverse PTR records themselves.

Theres a bit in the docs that seems to indicate that it can be done, but I havn't
actually tried as yet.
Has anyone else ?




[This message has been edited by moist (edited 09-08-2001).]

regi

Moist, I'm going to try this soon. I'll let you know how it goes
If you've done it in the mean time, I'd love to know how it went for you...

moist

I don't actually work at the company any more, so I never got around to trying (it was never needed while I was there...)
But it would be interested to know if it can actually be done for future referance