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djbdns HOWTO for Mac OS X

Posted by pudge on from the dns-for-dummies-like-me dept.

mattsimerson writes "Looking for a more secure and reliable alternative to BIND for serving DNS on Mac OS X? Look no further than the article I wrote up on the topic. I use djbdns extensively in a large network environment (hundreds of thousands of zones and servers) and it works just as well on my G4 laptop. If you're a heavy duty DNS guy, you might enjoy my other DNS links." Excellent. I am just a dumb programmer, not a sysadmin. It takes me hours to figure out how to configure something relatively simple in NetInfo, so this HOWTO is very welcome.

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  1. Put this in the right place by Matthias+Wiesmann · · Score: 3, Informative

    This is nice and good, but should such information not be put where it should, i.e in the collection of how-to document for darwin?

  2. It probably should, but... by Big+Sean+O · · Score: 2

    then I would have never found darwinfo.org.

    The internet's so big that sometimes I don't even realize I need to know about a site until I read about it somewhere else.

    I've been looking for a quality Mac OS X/Darwin site for a while now and apple.slashdot.org and macslash.com are the two places I go to find links to quality sites. Beats googling for hours...

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  3. Netinfo by SlamMan · · Score: 2, Funny

    Don't feel bad, even those of us that are sys admins are still having a fair amount of trouble usng NetInfo. NetInfo's what we need more tutorials on.

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  4. NetInfo documentation source by Phoukka · · Score: 2, Informative

    For a PDF from Apple on NetInfo, check out UnderstandingUsingNetInfo.pdf. I've looked it over, haven't read it yet, it seems to be a pretty decent intro.

    1. Re:NetInfo documentation source by SlamMan · · Score: 2

      right, but between this, and apple's 500 page one that totally uninteligable, thats all thhte documentation that can be found.

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  5. You could also try BIND 9. by mellon · · Score: 2

    BIND 9 is a complete reimplementation of a domain name server, and does not share any code at all with BIND 8. BIND 9 also supports cryptographic authentication of DNS updates, zone transfers, and so on, and supports DNSSEC. I am currently running BIND 9 on my MacOS X systems, and I'm very happy with the results. Given that I have, in the past, worked for the ISC, I'm a bit biased, but I didn't write any of the code in BIND 9.

    I don't know DJB, so I can't really speak to the quality of his code, but I do know the folks who developed BIND 9, and I think they did a really nice job. If you want an open source domain name server, I don't think you can do any better than BIND 9.