Re: [gentoo-user] BIND DNS?

[Sean Johnson <gutenpress@gmail.com>]

For what it's worth, I'd second djbdns. I've been using it (and qmail)
for a long time now, and haven't yet run into an issue.

Cheers,

Sean

On 12/13/05, Ben <ben@thatproject.co.uk> wrote:
> On Tuesday 13 December 2005 20:54, Tom Smith wrote:
> > I'm looking to install BIND DNS on one of my server (the first Gentoo box
> > on my network) but haven't been able to locate it in Portage. I tried the
> > obvious searches for "bind", "nameserver", "dns", etc, but still haven't
> > been able to find it.
> >
> > Does Gentoo have a BIND package and, if so, what's it name?
>
> Uhh, there is a bind package:
>
> maya / # emerge -p bind
>
> These are the packages that I would merge, in order:
>
> Calculating dependencies ...done!
> [ebuild  N    ] net-dns/bind-9.2.5-r6
> maya / #
>
> Although personally I'd be tempted to recommend djbdns, much in the same way
> as I'd advise something like postfix over sendmail.  There's some info on the
> wiki on how to install and configure djbdns, along with links to more info:
>
> http://gentoo-wiki.com/HOWTO_Setup_a_DNS_Server_with_DJBDNS
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