dnsmasq vs. bind

[Karl Schmidt]

Jonathan Hutchins wrote:

> On Sunday, February 08, 2004 08:07 pm, Karl Schmidt wrote:
> 
> 
>>Bind software  is poor. Bind and DHCP are kludged together to let DDNS
>>work.
> 
> 
> Bind isn't meant to work with dynamic DHCP.  Never was.  DDNS is exactly that, 
> a klludge to get it to work in a dynamic environment.  It's no fault of bind.
> 
Well then why is it described in the man page? We agree that it is a kludge.

> 
>>Seems that DHCP and DNS should share the same data base.
> 
> 
> That's a great idea, but that's not what bind is meant for.  It's designed for 
> large networks where addresses are essentially static.  It has provisions for 
> updates, but those are slow.  It's meant to be - and is - very stable.
> 

I guess that is the problem - bind has become out of date, crufty and 
kludged. I also saw some stability problems when bind 9 came out - glad 
they are fixed now. My point remains that there is a need to have a 
package that integrates DHCP and DNS into one database.

> 
>>What the world needs is for someone to create a new bind package. In a
>>similar way that exim replaced sendmail.
> 
> 
> Sendmail's still the most used mail system on the internet.  

Most popular is not a good reason to keep using it (if it was we would 
all be using M$ windows<g>)- exim postfix qmail are all much better 
choices.

>If I were to 
> guess, I would say that MS Exchange is it's closest "competitor".  Exim 
> doesn't even bump the scale. Postfix and qmail are popular, but mostly 
> because sendmail is difficult to configure well.  People who think sendmail 
> isn't good software don't know much about it.

I used sendmail - it does have support for very old standards that no 
one I know uses. Other than that it has a terrible config, and 
lackluster performance. The cost of configuring sendmail is too high and 
it often ends up miss configured.

Also it is interesting to note that debian, redhat and a few other 
distributions all use exim, postfix, or qmail instead of the old 
war-horse as the default MTA. (Debian wisely defaults to exim).

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