Just saw an announcement for Dents ( http://www.dents.org/ ) on comp.os.linux.announce. This is supposedly a (future) replacement for BIND, as a DNS server. It has some cool ideas (dynamic zones, open storage interface, control interface, etc), but it looks like it's a work in progress. Has anyone looked at this? It seems like it could (theoretically) address several of the DNS issues that have been discussed here and on inet-access lately. I'm not quite sure I understand why these features weren't just contributed to BIND, but maybe it is time for a fresh start... Pete. P.S. Looks like one of the participants works for Mindspring, but there doesn't appear to be any association between this project and Mindspring. ---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Todd Graham Lewis <tlewis@mindspring.net> Newsgroups: comp.os.linux.announce Subject: Dents v0.0.1 - a DNS server Date: Sat, 28 Nov 1998 12:59:06 GMT ANNOUNCEMENT ============ We announce the first public release of Dents, an implementation of the Domain Name Service, as defined in RFC 1035 and others. Dents was designed and implemented by Johannes Erdfelt (jerdfelt@sventech.com) and Todd Lewis (tlewis@mindspring.com), with Johannes doing most of the real work. We release it under the terms of the GNU General Public License, Version 2, with the proviso that one cannot upgrade to future versions of the GPL without the permission of Johannes Erdfelt and Todd Lewis.