On Sunday, October 11, 2015 09:35:39 AM Alan McKinnon wrote: > On 11/10/2015 04:13, James wrote: > > Howdy, > > > > So I now have (5) statics and a fiber feed, with lots of room to grow. > > > > I need to setup DNS primary/secondary systems on gentoo. So right now I'm > > looking for a suggested list of packages to install with Bind, iptables > > and > > DNSSEC-tools as these (2) gentoo dns servers will only run the minimum > > packages to operate securely? > > auth or cache? > > First of all, bind is a pain to use. Reason: it's actually a reference > implementation that as usual got forced into production use. It's slower > than it could be because it deals with every possible corner case per RFC. > > As an auth server (few queries) it's OK > As a cache (many queries), there are better servers out there. I prefer > unbound.
As it is related to this thread, which server would people recommend when the DNS records are to be found in a database? Reason I am asking: I want to set up a lab environment with VMs coming and going. These all need to have hostname/mac/ip stored and configured correctly. Till now, I basically preconfigured Bind and DHCPd for a bunch of them. I would prefer to be able to specify a hostname for this, but writing something that keeps changing the configuration and keeping it in-sync with a database is a bit overkill. Thanks, Joost
