On Fri, Apr 20, 2012 at 03:30:58AM +0000, James Harper wrote:
Buffalo WZR-HP-G300NH2AP Wireless N 5 x Gigabit ports 64MB RAM 32MB Flash USB2 port <$100 (according to shopbot)
the WBMR-HP-G300H with ADSL2+ for about $120 looks interesting, but i'd still rather use debian on a netbook.
I'd question whether bind9 would be the right choice to run on a little router like that, maybe better off having something that can just run as a secondary if you can.
i need something capable of acting as a primary authoritative name-server for my domains, not just a cache. of all the available open source name-servers, bind9 annoys me the least. for the most part, it doesn't annoy me at all - it just works. nsd would be my next best choice but when i tested it a few years ago, it was still fairly buggy, had more annoying quirks than bind9, and didn't use any less RAM than bind9 (which was my main reason for looking into alternatives at the time - these days, the size of cheaply and commonly available RAM sticks make that mostly irrelevant). from what i've read, there are good reasons for using nsd if you host many thousands of domains. i host only a handful. IIRC, none of the others support the zone standard file format, they all have their own specific format, and maybe have some sort of semi-functional converter...some of them OK, some of them ugly and unreadable. of these, dnsmasq would probably be my next choice....but i'd have to give up using ISC's dhcpd. but overall, i just don't see any compelling reason to switch from bind9 or ISC dhcpd. they meet my needs and don't cause me any problems. craig -- craig sanders <cas@taz.net.au> BOFH excuse #404: Sysadmin accidentally destroyed pager with a large hammer.