On Fri, Mar 26, 2010 at 1:24 AM, Gerrit Pape <p...@smarden.org> wrote:
> On Thu, Mar 25, 2010 at 10:45:55PM -0700, John Wenger wrote: > > I have used djbdns off and on for years (woody, sarge, and before) but > > I was never able to get it to work using the debian way. Everyone > > said just use DJB's method, and it worked as a charm. Now, years > > later, I tried teh Debian way using the Lenny deb dbndns, and once > > again I am defeated. The man pages are reference pages, without > > examples, and the DJB website has tutorial instructions the DJB-way > > but not for the Debian way. Debian needs to either put things where > > DJB's tutorial expects them, or Debian needs to write their won > > tutorials. Bythe way, I have the dnscache running fine, returning > > results in 2 ms. > > Hi, I'm sorry that you got frustated. I see that the dbndns package > lacks documentation that's included in the djbdns package. I don't know > why you chose the dbndns package instead of djbdns. Would this > information in /usr/share/doc/dbndns/README.Debian have helped you?: > Hi. Thanks very much for your prompt response. I chose dbndns because I guessed that it was the more modern way forward, since dbndns has been patched to support IPV6, and I did not see that for djbdns, although I might have just missed that. IIRC, Debian used to have a deb for installing djbdns from source, and I guessed that that was being carried forward as the djbdns deb. I used apt-cache show <pkg name> to read about both debs, but was not able to learn which one to use, and for why. It would really help me if these commands informed us which to use and why. I would happily use either dbndns or djbdns. Which should I use and why? And yes, that info in /usr/share/doc/dbndns/README.Debianwould have helped me. But that entry in /etc/sv has me confused. What is that about? > --- > djbdns for Debian > ----------------- > > This package provides the djbdns programs, installed into /usr/bin/, and > man pages. When configuring and enabling djbdns services, please note > that daemontools' default directory for services on Debian is > /etc/service/, not /service/. > > See http://cr.yp.to/djbdns.html for detailed documentation. > > -- Gerrit Pape <p...@smarden.org>, Wed, 09 Jan 2008 21:14:00 +0000 > --- > > Apart from these changes, you should be able to configure and run djbdns > using upstream's method. > I don't know what upstream's method is. I guess that makes me a class 2 bug-reporter, since type threes know that. > > The man pages contain exactly the information that you get from > http://cr.yp.to/djbdns.html. > > Regards, Gerrit. > I don't find most of them very useful, but that is not your fault. What would be really useful would be told to use djb's tutorials with the following changes, whatever they are. Thanks again for your prompt response. John Wenger
