Mark Rogers mark@quarella.co.uk wrote:
I've always found configuring Bind to be, er, a bit of a bind, so are there any simpler options out there or should I just bite the bullet and install bind? What is the typical system overhead of running DNS - should I add it to my web/mail servers or should it be separate? [...]
MyDNS and PowerDNS are other options, simpler for some value of simpler. MyDNS and bind on the software.coop-run servers don't make any significant loan (as long as the network is guarded against DoS attacks against DNS, which I think ours are) and they're generally run alongside web and mailservers as you suggest. Particularly MyDNS when its control panel needs a webserver anyway.
There's also the djbdns/tinydns/dbndns mess, which I don't particularly like, but some people love its config file layout.
Hope that helps,