[KLUG Members] News: PostgreSQL 7.2 released

[Adam Williams]

>>So John, how about a bind vs. dj?dns presentation?
>That would be lopsided comparison, since djbdns is superior to BIND in
>every way.  Why people still run the Buggy Internet Name Daemon is beyond
>me.

I'd love to leave bind, however dibdns is not really in the same league.

1. No asynchronous update facilities.  (They do have a log monitoring
hack,  but we were talking about security, right?)

2. No support for SRV records.  (Forget working with any Windows 2000 or
newer servers).  It does deal with <i>any</i> type,  but in an arbitrary
fashion,  thus no verification that your record has a valid structure.

3. No support for non ASCII/UTF-8 host names  (Ok,  so long as all your
users speak English,  and some near-future M$ product may render it
useless).  TO be fair tinydns claims to process binary data,  but the
file format doesn't seem to have any way to deal with it. RFC2181

I'd love for all the above points to be wrong,  but from my fiddling
they certainly seem true.  These are very serious limitations for
large-ish sites.