On Fri, Jul 25, 2003 at 03:05:22AM +0430, alireza saleh <saleh@mailhost.nic.ir> wrote a message of 18 lines which said:
would you also please give me a suggestion about the DNS server program to be use instead of bind ? it should be Secure, Reliable and fast, I always use Bind , but I heard it has many bugs eventhough I haven't seen any.
BIND is the Apache of DNS servers: it does a lot of things and it is heavily configurable. If you do not need all its features, the best choice (I only consider free software) is, IMHO, nsd <URL:http://www.nlnetlabs.nl/nsd/index.html>, which is much smaller (and therefore probably more secure) and much faster (although you may not see it on a lightly loaded name server). You may consider PowerDNS also: <URL:http://www.powerdns.com/>. It has an interesting feature, you can use various backends (and even write your own) to manage the actual data store.