On Mon, Mar 29, 2010 at 6:04 AM, Gerrit Pape <p...@smarden.org> wrote:
> On Fri, Mar 26, 2010 at 03:10:44PM -0700, John Wenger wrote: > > 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 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. > > Ok, I'll see what I can do to improve this. > I got dbndns working, but it might have happened through me making a typo. I will return to this when you tell me the pros and cons of dbndns vs djbdns. I don't want to invest my effort in the one being deprecated. My domain is Netskier.Net, and it has A, NS, and MX records as of now. > > > 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? > > I'll add that paragraph to dbndns' README.Debian. What do you mean by > 'entry in /etc/sv', where did you read about that? > I did not read about it at all that I can recall, but simply noticed the entry there. It may have apppeared after I ran that dnscache setup program. This one: ii dnscache-run 1:1.05-4+lenny1 djbdns dnscache service. Here is what /etc/sv contains: r...@ve1:/etc# ll -R sv sv: total 12 drwxr-xr-x 3 root root 4096 Mar 24 14:14 ./ drwxr-xr-x 77 root root 4096 Mar 28 21:58 ../ drwxr-sr-t 5 root root 4096 Mar 24 14:14 dnscache/ sv/dnscache: total 28 drwxr-sr-t 5 root root 4096 Mar 24 14:14 ./ drwxr-xr-x 3 root root 4096 Mar 24 14:14 ../ drwxr-sr-x 2 root root 4096 Mar 24 14:14 env/ drwxr-sr-x 2 root root 4096 Mar 24 14:14 log/ drwxr-sr-x 4 root root 4096 Mar 24 14:14 root/ -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 136 Jul 11 2009 run* -rw------- 1 root root 128 Mar 24 14:14 seed lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 27 Mar 24 14:14 supervise -> /var/lib/supervise/dnscache/ sv/dnscache/env: total 28 drwxr-sr-x 2 root root 4096 Mar 24 14:14 ./ drwxr-sr-t 5 root root 4096 Mar 24 14:14 ../ -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 8 Jul 11 2009 CACHESIZE -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 8 Jul 11 2009 DATALIMIT -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 10 Jul 11 2009 IP -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 8 Jul 11 2009 IPSEND -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 22 Jul 11 2009 ROOT sv/dnscache/log: total 12 drwxr-sr-x 2 root root 4096 Mar 24 14:14 ./ drwxr-sr-t 5 root root 4096 Mar 24 14:14 ../ lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 17 Mar 24 14:14 main -> /var/log/dnscache/ -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 51 Jul 11 2009 run* -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 0 Jul 11 2009 status lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 31 Mar 24 14:14 supervise -> /var/lib/supervise/dnscache.log/ sv/dnscache/root: total 16 drwxr-sr-x 4 root root 4096 Mar 24 14:14 ./ drwxr-sr-t 5 root root 4096 Mar 24 14:14 ../ drwxr-sr-x 2 root root 4096 Mar 24 14:14 ip/ drwxr-sr-x 2 root root 4096 Mar 24 14:14 servers/ sv/dnscache/root/ip: total 8 drwxr-sr-x 2 root root 4096 Mar 24 14:14 ./ drwxr-sr-x 4 root root 4096 Mar 24 14:14 ../ -rw------- 1 root root 0 Jul 11 2009 127.0.0.1 sv/dnscache/root/servers: total 12 drwxr-sr-x 2 root root 4096 Mar 24 14:14 ./ drwxr-sr-x 4 root root 4096 Mar 24 14:14 ../ -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 168 Jul 11 2009 @ r...@ve1:/etc# Regards, John
