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Subject: Re: DNScache
From: Bennett Todd (betrahul.net)
Date: Mon Apr 17 2000 - 07:23:19 CDT

[ Note: given the intimate and urgent connection between an MTA (and
  its correct operation) and DNS service, I don't think this is
  particularly off-topic ]

2000-04-17-03:45:04 Ralf Hildebrandt:
> Is anybody here (except for Dan himself) using DNScache instead
> of BIND? How does it perform in respect to BIND (CPU usage,
> configurability). It looks like a "good thing" (TM) to me.

I've been using it on my own machine since 0.80, back the beginning
of February. I setup up tinydns to see how it worked. I evolved
scripts that automatically track a BIND-based server using zone
transfers with djb's axfr-get (part of the dnscache package). I
wrote beautifying scripts to pretty up the data pulled by axfr-get.
I developed code to automatically pull internic's root.zone.gz and
convert it into tinydns-data format, so I can make a tinydns-server
my root nameserver. I've done so.

I've deployed dnscache as the caching nameserver on our primary mail
server. I've deployed dnscache for the caching nameserver, and
tinydns for split-dns authoritative nameservice, in one of our
company's offices.

I'm replacing bind with dnscache+tinydns everywhere, and plan on
continuing to do so.

-Bennett

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