Notes on djbdns

djbdns Links

General

• http://cr.yp.to/djbdns.html - The official djbdns homepage
• http://www.tinydns.org/ - Lots of helpful informations, patches, etc
• http://www.lifewithdjbdns.org/ - Another information site

Instructions/HOWTO's

• Thorough installation instruction at daemonnews. Excellent.
• The DJBDNS Book - By Ken Jones of Inter7 Internet Technologies, Inc.
• Installation instructions for djbdns on FreeBSD
• Installation instructions for djbdns on Mac OS X
• Grumpy Badger's Guide to djbdns
• Gerrit Pape's Debian instructions
• Adam McKenna's "BIND-to-djbdns Migration Guide"
• Setting up djbdns for dialup connections
• The djbdns roadmap
• Installing dnscache - From The Northeast Ohio Linux Users Group

Reference

• Rob Mayoff's tinydns and dnscache log notes
• Archive for the dns at cr.yp.to mailing list
• Felix von Leitner's FAQ
• Rob Mayoff's tinydns Record Maker - Very useful for making TXT, RP, and SRV records
• Knowledge Base Faqts for djbdns

Patches / Updates

• The IP addresses of two different root servers have changed since djbdns-1.05 was released in 2001. Here is a patch to update /etc/dnsroots.global. You will also need to update any $DNSCACHE/root/servers/@ files as well.

Miscellaneous

• Dynamic DNS for djbdns - uses pop3 to update the records
• TinyDYN - yet another djbdns dynamic dns implementation
• Nate Campi's DNS graphing scripts - For dnscache, tinydns and BIND
• Stephan Wehner's public dnsq interface

General DNS Links

• DNS at matt.simerson.net
• Jonathon de Boyne-Pollard's FGA - See the Internet DNS section
• Paul Jarc's DNS page
• The "bailiwick" of content DNS servers
• Dan Bernstein's DNS notes
• Men and Mice DNS Glossary
• Create SPF Records