Bind v. TinyDNS

[Rui Miguel Seabra]

On Sun, 2004-01-04 at 23:18, Christopher Chan wrote:
> > If it doesn't come with a license, then its even worse. According to
> > most copyright laws in the world no one but the author has an authorized
> > copy. Obviously, you missed something.
>
> Heh. No I haven't.
> 
> I don't a license to own a book. Neither do I need a license to own a 
> copy of a piece of software under any copyright law.

Ok. First you forget that the book is the implicit licensed copy.
Then you forget that software is normally distributed by law with a
license, unless it is public domain.

> Here's is my strong feelings to use tinydns over bind.

I did not advocate bind, necessarily. There's other programs, like Mara.
I refrain from commenting Mara, since I don't know it, and my usage of
bind is rather minimal and we like to keep it under controlled
environments, because of its (in)security track.

> The tinydns program has a small memory footprint, has no history of 
> security holes whatsoever, is easy to configure and maintain, is fast 
> and has the minor benefit of requiring no restart of the program when 
> the dns configuration is updated.

No one said Dan's an incompetent coder, much by the contrary. What he is
is so anti-social that it is even reflected upon the way he
automatically treats people he doesn't know, through his license.

Rui

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