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Re: [Sheflug] Guide to setting up DNS server

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From: Gary Stimson <bulk [at] xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Wed, 12 Nov 2003 10:39:17 +0000
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At 09:59 12/11/2003 +0000, you wrote:

I've decided to set up a DNS server for our network.  However having looked
at the bind (9) documentation I'm a still confused.

I'm not surprised. BIND is over-complicated and insecure. Consider DJBDNS or one of the other DNS packages. DJBDNS doesn't use zones, you just give it a list of records, which is much easier.

Gary

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