Re: [gentoo-dev] DNS-Server

[Jerry A! <jerry@thehutt.org>]

On Wed, Dec 19, 2001 at 03:22:07PM -0600, Jon Nelson wrote:
: On 19 Dec 2001 22:12:09 +0100
: Sebastian Werner <sebastian@werner-productions.de> wrote:
: 
: > Hey,
: > 
: > next problem. Somewhere i have read about replacements of the non secure
: > bind. I ask myself why so many people use bind if it doesn't work good
: > or make millions of problems. I like to try djbdns (in combination with
: > q-mail). There seems not to be a init.d script. Mhh. Use anybody this
: > app and could he write an init script? Have you a good page for the
: > first steps with this software?
: 
: I would think that it would be appropriate to ask the legal
: questions surrounding the distribution of much of djb's work.

Already asked.  We don't distribute binary packages of his software,
which is where the bulk of his restrictions.  By building from source,
we get around the issue, in the same manner as the BSDs.

: You may also want to consider maradns, which isn't as 
: license-encumbered.

While MaraDNS is nice, it still has a number of missing features and is
still getting the wrinkles ironed out.  This is probably not the
software one wants to be running if they don't plan on sitting on top of
it.

        --Jerry

Open-Source software isn't a matter of life or death...
...It's much more important than that!