Re: bind -> unbound/nsd

[Patrick Welche <prlw1%cam.ac.uk@localhost>]

On Fri, Aug 19, 2016 at 06:13:13PM +0200, Joerg Sonnenberger wrote:
> On Fri, Aug 19, 2016 at 09:55:48AM +0100, Roy Marples wrote:
> > For example, I would use nsd on exactly one machine in my environment,
> > my public facing DNS server which is exactly where it belongs.
> > 
> > On the other hand, all my other BSD machines run unbound as a local
> > caching resolver.
> 
> To slightly expand that. You don't need nsd if you just want to serve a
> few local host names for a local network. You only need nsd if you want
> to provide an authoritive DNS server. IMO that is a decently small use
> case that it doesn't justify the incluse into the base system.

I know nothing of bound / nsd - in bind I currently serve a local
domain using zones fetched from the authoritative server, so it
isn't authoritative, and it isn't only cacheing - how does that fit
in the new world?

Cheers,

Patrick