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Works great
by Shaman - Oct 26th 2002 12:33:35
The software is stable, and dnscache works really well. However, like all
DJB software, it's really very quirky to get running and installed.
That said, it's working fantastic as a DNS cache for my network... I have
two big DNS caches with 850MB of cache apiece (yes, you read that right)
and the other machines all have 5MB of local dns cache. My network feels
3x snappier now without adding any egress bandwidth. Wow.
If there's a better dns cache than the one in djbdns, let me know. :)
As far as tinydns goes, it works flawlessly and is brutally quick at what
it does, considering the way it does it. My only complaints with it are in
the management tools.
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DJBDNS will be dead in 2 years
by Snatcher - Mar 28th 2001 14:38:43
DJBDNS will be dead in two years from now, as soon as DJB loses his
interest in it, like happened to qmail.
Both of them are "One man's project", and worse, you can't
share improvements with anyone (to reduce your costs).
Some time after DJB loses his interest on it and forgot to continue the
project, you'll have to face your boss and say "Yes, I know I've done a lot
of advertising about OpenSource and all about, but this project is dead".
Like happened when qmail died.
Just remember: DJBDNS and qmail are NOT Free Software! It's
freeware with source available. So, it misses the *core* of the OpenSource
idea, which DJB seems to use but not to understand.
At this perspective, DJB codes only to himself.
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Re: DJBDNS will be dead in 2 years
by RefreshDaemon - Apr 3rd 2001 13:29:36
legaly and easily (because the source IS available) you can patch his shit
to your contentment. If qmail is dead, which I didn't realise, their is no
risk of future releases being incompatible with patches so its conceivable
that a sourceforge, qmail patching project could be started
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Re: DJBDNS will be dead in 2 years
by Enflux - Aug 4th 2001 19:03:12
hrmm interesting. qmail remains to be one of the most scalable and stable
mta's around. djb did not loose interest, qmail 2.0 is in the works as well
as the website stays current, evidence that he still has an interest in the
project. qmail does not NEED other versions, why? because it was done RIGHT
the first time. as for djb's license practices i totally agree with him.
open source is an idea, not a facist religion. INOW a persons code is HIS
code, freely distributable only if he wants it that way, this follows along
the lines of my belief as well. i too am an open source contributor and
have worked on several patches for qmail etc... after all, interesting on
how a dead project has yet to have a bug found in it as the prize money has
been yet unclaimed after many years.
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Re: DJBDNS will be dead in 2 years
by Bryan Henderson - Nov 19th 2001 20:58:41
I guess the license must have changed since this comment was made. I
looked all around and found djbdns to be nothing but freeware. Freeware
means you get it without having to give anything in return. The comment
implies it is not freeware - that the user must give in exchange for the
software a promise not to distribute modifications of it. I don't see that
anywhere today. I don't even see the usual "you must indemnify me against
damage done by my negligent coding" demand.
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Re: DJBDNS will be dead in 2 years
by Andrzej Kukula - Feb 6th 2002 02:29:28
I prefer to use 5-year old, or even 50-year old freeware djbdns than
brand-new Open Sourced BIND full of shit and bugs...
I can set up DNSCache in 10 minutes and I am sure that it will never go
down... or more, that it will never bring my box to its knees.
I can set up TinyDNS in 10 minutes, write 1000+ domains in one simple
database and be sure that they will be serviced properly.
Moreover, I have simple utilities like dnsname, dnsip, dnsq, dnsqr,
dnstrace, all of them help me easily diagnose problems.
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Re: DJBDNS will be dead in 2 years
by rama - Sep 1st 2002 03:06:03
I have just build a DNS with djbdns,and i found it really nice(than
bind).But after reading these articles above,i wonder if djbdns will die.
--
a newbie still in university;
like FreeX
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Re: DJBDNS will be dead in 2 years
by Sam Trenholme - Oct 11th 2002 05:21:05
I agree that Dan has a less than ideal license for his solution. For
example, I can not mirror all of the tools needed to make DjbDNS work on my
web page because daemontools' license does not allow it to be anywhere
except on http://cr.yp.to. And, the documentation is only available on
cr.yp.to and can not be legally mirrored.
That said, Dan's software does not need constant revisions. Qmail does
one thing and one thing well (though it has problems being an outgoing SMTP
server due to an annoying intermittent 90-second delay); it does not need
security updates because the code was written securely from the onset.
Ditto with DjbDNS.
I wrote MaraDNS so that the internet would have a simple bare-bones DNS
server (with all of the essentials: Caching and authoritative serving)
which is both fully open-source and uses no BIND code. It is, roughly
speaking, the "Postfix" of DNS servers. There's also Posadis, which is not
recurisve (caching) yet, and is more geared to people who want something
more BIND-like than DjbDNS or MaraDNS.
- Sam
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