[PLUG] Re: [PLUG-WEB] [PLUG Website 0000018]: DNS configuration is not up to par

Carla Schroder pluglist at bratgrrl.com
Fri Jan 10 18:25:17 UTC 2003


On Friday 10 January 2003 05:16 pm, Ed Sawicki wrote:
> > Oh, ok.  Hmm.. I don't see why that would be a problem.  I have a
> > corporate setup where the external DNS server was tinydns and axfrdns
> > with ACL's to allow Sprint secondaries to pull zone files.  Worked like
> > a charm.
>
> Yes, of course it works well. Many of us are doing the same thing.
> I think the issue was tinydns and axfrdns not supporting the
> TSIG and/or DNSSEC.

So what's this mean in the real world? My cranky DNS guru, who uses djbdns, 
likes to rant about what a horrid hack TSIG is, and he doesn't think much of 
DNSSEC either. Are they necessary for DNS to work, or are they lame BIND 
hacks, as the aforementioned cranky guru says?

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