djbdns

    It's no secret that bind has long ceased to be the de facto standard in the world of dns servers, both as caching and as authoritative for zones.
    Recently, the development of the esteemed Mr. DJ Bernstein - djbdns has been gaining the most popularity. Like all Bernstein software products, djbdns is notable for its high safety and reliability by design, ease of setup, powerful functionality, excellent performance and low hardware requirements. It is worth saying that for newcomers to the * nix world or those who have never encountered software released by Bernstein, the setting may not seem trivial and confusing.





    However, it is worth saying that having understood the proposed concept, configuring djbdns becomes a simple and enjoyable task.

    djbdns can be used as a caching server for a desktop station, authoritative zone servers, or recursive caching servers.

    djbdn is fairly reliable; there is experience using it both on the local caching server and on production servers.

    I would like to pay special attention to the format of zone configuration files.
    Instead of a complex bind-style format, a simple delimiter-style format is used, which provides a simpler configuration with both hands and scripts.

    The main documentation is available at cr.yp.to/djbdns.html
    There are mailing lists where you can find answers to your questions.

    If you are faced with the task of setting up a dns server, try djbdns, in any case, at least you will get a new useful experience.

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