On Fri, Nov 08, 2013 at 09:01:52PM -0800, Rick Moen wrote:
Quoting zlinw@mcmedia.com.au (zlinw@mcmedia.com.au):
It's nice to know my initial diagnosis of a name server problem was correct.
If you're looking for a really fast, well behaved recursive-only DNS nameserver, look no further than Unbound. (I'm a big fan of it and its authoritative-only sibling NSD. My experience with PowerDNS Recursor and PowerDNS Authoritative Server has been a little more mixed.)
yep, for a recursive-only nameserver, unbound is great. it's been years since I used them, but both maradns and dnsmasq do a reasonable job too (dnsmasq can also do dhcp and tftp). i can't remember if unbound can do this or not, but both dnsmasq and maradns can also do some authoritative DNS - not as good as bind, but good enough for maintaining local hostname entries. powerdns just seems like massive overkill for a tiny little internet gateway box. it's designed for very large ISP and DNS service providers, with a need for great flexibility in where DNS data is sourced (e.g. flat files, databases, whatever) and huge numbers of domains. short descs from debian packages: bind9 - Internet Domain Name Server dnsmasq - Small caching DNS proxy and DHCP/TFTP server maradns - simple security-focused Domain Name Service server pdns-server - extremely powerful and versatile nameserver unbound - validating, recursive, caching DNS resolver craig PS: i personally use bind9 but only because it's the only thing that conveniently does both authoritative and recursive DNS in the one program - and my auth dns MUST be on my gateway box's IP address of 203.16.167.1. i need both auth & recursive and don't want to run two nameservers. if i didn't host the DNS for my own domains myself, i'd probably run unbound or dnsmasq. -- craig sanders <cas@taz.net.au>