From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from lists.gentoo.org ([140.105.134.102] helo=robin.gentoo.org) by nuthatch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.54) id 1Endti-0001IE-82 for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Sat, 17 Dec 2005 15:22:58 +0000 Received: from robin.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.5/8.13.5) with SMTP id jBHFL2uF001807; Sat, 17 Dec 2005 15:21:02 GMT Received: from zproxy.gmail.com (zproxy.gmail.com [64.233.162.197]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.5/8.13.5) with ESMTP id jBHFIrMU028457 for ; Sat, 17 Dec 2005 15:18:54 GMT Received: by zproxy.gmail.com with SMTP id z3so826661nzf for ; Sat, 17 Dec 2005 07:18:53 -0800 (PST) DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; q=dns; c=nofws; s=beta; d=gmail.com; h=received:message-id:date:from:to:subject:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition:references; b=XFu0Ba51cRoqfGx8ngx/NL0TsSPppniZh0rjcyI2nRpY+UBfKr4EyJ5TNDKJ2ybqqwXJYPtv5JvkIeJhikFOOaVb+d74FyuScNbK3sPk4FtUu+Vawv31dhD13KCRlmAg7eAlMmtGBNkwDd5/vuCmX3ryIheNVqg279Gs6Iq6RPY= Received: by 10.37.2.15 with SMTP id e15mr4020716nzi; Sat, 17 Dec 2005 07:18:52 -0800 (PST) Received: by 10.36.7.2 with HTTP; Sat, 17 Dec 2005 07:18:51 -0800 (PST) Message-ID: <11fc6a250512170718i3f282754m54c87b2048652f34@mail.gmail.com> Date: Sat, 17 Dec 2005 10:18:51 -0500 From: Sean Johnson To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] BIND DNS? In-Reply-To: <200512132102.10088.ben@thatproject.co.uk> Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Disposition: inline References: <20051213205418.66508.qmail@web54605.mail.yahoo.com> <200512132102.10088.ben@thatproject.co.uk> Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-MIME-Autoconverted: from quoted-printable to 8bit by robin.gentoo.org id jBHFIrMU028457 X-Archives-Salt: cd2bf4b7-5d0c-4eb3-8027-c013dc4eacde X-Archives-Hash: 1d125811859124cffd0bf6b0b5dddde7 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 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 > -- > gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list > > -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list