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Old 15th May 2009
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Originally Posted by robbak View Post
I guess Bind and Sendmail are of a kind: they both are the programs that defined and shaped their protocols.
So, once you really understand the protocol, neither are that difficult to configure.
Well, that's fine and dandy if I have all the time in the world, but I do this as a consultant and many times, I need to set up DNS quickly. For example, my current project is a 100 bed nursing home on an Indian reservation. I need to configure DNS for the local LAN, but I don't have all week to do it, and I can't bill for that kind of time. I am a command line geek, but many times I use a web interface if an application has one for two reasons. One, it is generally faster for me with Bind type of configs where the the config files are not just human readable text, and two, I have a Windoze guy I work with to integrate the workstations with the backend which unfortunately will not go away any time soon, and he is not CLI literate - well not for this type of config anyway.

So far, I also haven't found a good tutorial that explains just what each part of Bind does and how it works. I am really not up to speed when it comes to DNS. Any suggestions would be greatly appreciated.

-Tim
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