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.
On Sun, 29 Nov 1998, Pete Kruckenberg wrote:
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.
It is.
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.
Johannes is a former MindSpring employee; we started the project when he worked here. He has since gone on to another job. No, MindSpring is not sanctioning the project, and we are both doing it in our spare time. MindSpring is donating the web site and the mailing list. MindSpring is not at present running Dents anywhere, but I hope for that to change once we get it cleaned up a little. In answer to your question, though, this is very much a personal project and not an official MindSpring project. -- Todd Graham Lewis MindSpring Enterprises tlewis@mindspring.net The Windows 2000 name was obviously created over a glass of root beer in the company cafeteria by a couple of executives looking for a way out of the Windows NT delays. -- John C. Dvorak
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