Re: [PLUG] "Mini" DNS options?

["Douglas Muth" <doug.muth@gmail.com>]

On 5/14/06, jazzman@exdomain.org <jazzman@exdomain.org> wrote:
> Now that every machine on my network is working ok I was thinking of
> setting up some kind of small dns server for my internal network. Can
> anyone make any recommendations on what the best way to proceed is.
>
> What options other than BIND are there? It seems like BIND is a headache,
> from what it seems, but all I need is a DNS server for a network with
> maybe 10 machines. Names/addresses won't change often, if at all, but I
> was hoping to do something other than copying hosts files to every single
> machine.

One alternative is tinydns/djbdns:

http://tinydns.org/
http://cr.yp.to/djbdns.html

Note that you'll also need to install and become familliar with daemontools:

http://cr.yp.to/daemontools.html

Feel free to drop me a line off list if you have any additional
questions about either or run into problems.

-- Doug
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