On Sat, Mar 9, 2013 at 8:44 PM, Mike Cloaked <mike.cloaked@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > >> >> Great. I was actually going to open a feature request for this on >> flyspray. >> The only thing: whouldn't one need community/unbound (unbound-host AFAIR) >> to >> replace nslookup? > > > Do I interpret this as meaning that if dnstools and bind are removed from > the arch repos, then ldns carries the tools as a replacement, but that > "unbound" is a dependent package that would then be the authoritative > resolver that replaces bind? Or would it be that ldns would contain not > only the dns tools (such as the replacement for dig etc), but also the full > authoritative resolver merged into the code? > > Maybe I just don't understand the proposal here. Perhaps someone could > clarify what the proposal means? > > Apologies for replying to my own previous post, but having read up a little more about authoritative and caching/recursive namerservers - it seems that a good alternative to bind (which I use on all my machines especially as a local authoritative DNS server for local networking) would be to use nsd as the pure authoritative nameserver in combination with unbound as a recursive caching nameserver. Both are packages available in arch. Once installed both have systemd service files, and it seems that setting them up is not too difficult - and I already had ldns installed (presume from the base install) so I guess having those three packages running would give a pretty good alternative to bind/dnstools though it would be nice to know if anyone is already using these and could post on how well they perform? -- mike c
