[Leaplist] djbdns ftw

[Jason Boxman]

I hadn't a reason to mess with djbdns for, well, ever.  (I used qmail briefly 
back in '98, but used Exim the next time I needed a mail server.)

Now I'm using it with a bunch of everydns.net servers running as secondaries, 
and it's pretty sweet.  There's a little package on Debian that downloads and 
builds djbdns for you, so it was pretty effortless and didn't overly violate 
my need for binary packages.

I've used bind some in the past, but I honestly prefer the record definitions 
used by tinydns.  I've heard some bind admins balk at them, but I am 
uncertain why.  tinydns also provides sensible defaults for the TTL, SOA, and 
such.

Being forced to configure dkim on such a beautiful Saturday, I stumbled across 
a great resource for building[1] a TXT record for dkim's TXT record.

[1] http://www.anders.com/projects/sysadmin/djbdnsRecordBuilder/

I am rather found of axfrdns's tcp rules file, too.

I am using some Debian cheats, though.  I always hated the top level djb 
directories, so the /service stuff is in /etc/service instead...

I haven't tried out the dns cache yet.

At some point, I need to document my working dkim setup with Exim4 on Etch 
using the Lenny packages of libdkim and Exim.  The actual documentation is 
somewhat sparse.

(View source, hug, and love my dkim signature.)


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