DNS server with djbdns (VegaDNS GUI + bonus replication)

djbdnsThis is my personal guide to setup djbdns tinydns DNS server to publish domain name information to the Internets. If djbdns, tinydns, name server, dns are strange words just move along, move along…

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DJB tinydns (djbdns)

FreeBSD comes with the venerable BIND (the Berkeley Internet Name Daemon) both for resolving hostnames and to publish own domain addresses (dns server). I don’t like it a bit…. it’s not fond to the Unix ways and principles at all, it’s big and monolithic, strange configuration file, bad security holes history, etc…

So, with a new box, comes the need to replace bind with djbdns. This is my howto on doing this in FreeBSD. Viewer discretion is advised as the level of geekness can leave brain damage…

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