Advice on setting up bind

Kenneth Hadley khadley at mcselph.com
Mon Sep 25 19:06:14 UTC 2000


----- Original Message -----
From: "Nitin Mule" <n_mule at hotmail.com>
Newsgroups: comp.protocols.dns.bind
To: <comp-protocols-dns-bind at moderators.isc.org>
Sent: Monday, September 25, 2000 9:28 AM
Subject: Re: Advice on setting up bind
>
> > I'd like some advice on what strain of Unix to run - I only need it to
run
> > bind
> > so that I can telnet to it from my main machine and edit files using VI
and
> > BASH. The 486 has no CD-Rom so I need a Unix that fills a few floppies
if
> > possible (not networked yet) Would this old machine run Bind 8+ ? Is it
> > worth me learning bind 4.x first?
> >
>
> Check out http://www.linuxrouter.org
>
> "LRP is small enough to fit on a single 1.44MB floppy disk, and makes
>  building and maintaining routers, access servers, thin servers, thin
clients,
>  network appliances, and typically embedded systems next to trivial."
>
> Quoted from http://www.linuxrouter.org
>
> I'm not sure how "trivial" it would be to put bind binaries on your box.
>
> Nitin

Personally I cant vouch for how well it works on LRP but ISC BIND version
8.2.2 patch level 5 has been packaged to run on LRP and is available from
http://lrp.steinkuehler.net/Packages.htm


-Kenneth Hadley





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