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Re: ISP best practices
From: Joe Abley <jabley () hopcount ca>
Date: Thu, 21 May 2009 12:00:58 -0400
On 21-May-2009, at 11:06, Curtis Maurand wrote:
Check out www.powerdns.com as an alternative to bind. Its faster, more secure, does IPV6 and easier to maintain.
I have heard lots of good things about PowerDNS, and I'm quite prepared to believe that it's a natural choice for a DNS hosting service where the database back-end makes for far simpler provisioning and control than managing a pile of config files.
However, you're not necessarily doing anybody any favours in making statements like "faster", "more secure" and "does IPv6". DNS servers are complicated beasts, and simplistic comparisons are not useful for much (it'd be trivial to give you examples where PowerDNS is slower and less secure, for example, and BIND9 has done IPv6 for the better part of a decade).
Joe
Current thread:
- RE: ISP best practices, (continued)
- RE: ISP best practices Bradley Freeman (May 21)
- Re: ISP best practices Jon Lewis (May 21)
- Re: ISP best practices Steve Bertrand (May 21)
- Re: ISP best practices Bryan Campbell (May 21)
- Re: ISP best practices Joel Jaeggli (May 21)
- Re: ISP best practices Curtis Maurand (May 21)
- Re: ISP best practices Ben Cooper (May 21)
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- Re: ISP best practices Cody Appleby (May 21)
- Re: ISP best practices Paul E (May 21)
- Re: ISP best practices Ben Cooper (May 21)
- Re: ISP best practices Joe Abley (May 21)
- Re: ISP best practices bmanning (May 21)
- Re: ISP best practices Joe Abley (May 21)
- Re: ISP best practices Curtis Maurand (May 21)
- Re: ISP best practices Adam Kennedy (May 21)
- RE: ISP best practices Jason Bertoch (May 21)
- Re: ISP best practices Justin Wilson - MTIN (May 21)
- Re: ISP best practices Shane Ronan (May 21)
- Re: ISP best practices Seth Mattinen (May 21)