[AusNOG] What Caching DNS Resolver Are You (ISPs) Using?

Jeremy Visser jeremy at sunriseroad.net
Mon Aug 31 11:47:17 EST 2015


On 2015-08-30, at 18:05, James Mcintosh wrote:
> I've looked at djbdns in the (distant) past but from memory it could only be configured as a forwarder which is not what I want.

djbdns contains multiple tiny servers that do different things.  It’s culturally different to BIND, which is by contrast monolithic.

‘dnscache’ is recursive, while ‘tinydns’ is authoritative.  If you want to do both things, run both servers.

If you’re paranoid about security, it really is hard to go past djbdns, although do consider using dbndns instead which actually supports IPv6.  (Gosh, is it the 21st century _already_? My how time flies.)\



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