Re: ldns: bind alternative?

[Alistair Crooks <agc%pkgsrc.org@localhost>]

On Tue, Jul 03, 2007 at 11:27:54AM -0500, David Young wrote:
> On Tue, Jul 03, 2007 at 05:07:24PM +0100, Alistair Crooks wrote:
> > On Fri, Jun 29, 2007 at 09:35:46PM -0500, David Young wrote:
> > > Just writing to share some information I cannot act on right now:
> > > I browsed the nsd website today.  Besides nsd, the authoritative-only
> > > nameserver, it mentions a DNS library called ldns, and an alternative
> > > to 'host' and 'dig' utilities, called 'drill', that is built on ldns.
> > > nsd and drill might be the compact alternatives to named and host/dig
> > > that some of us desire.
> > 
> > I'm a bit slow, but what is the licence on nsd and ldns?
> 
> BSD, <http://www.nlnetlabs.nl/nsd/svn/trunk/LICENSE>.

Very interesting.

The pdf of test results (on secureT on Itanium) is impressive,
too.

I'd like to see packages for them in pkgsrc, but they certainly
seem well-suited to embedded platforms.

Regards,
Alistair