Hi Ond?ej,
Thanks for such encouraging words.
Gave me a lot of confidence.
It's decided at my end. I will try to migrate my University DNS
authoritative setup to much improved NSD setup, of course with the help of
all the members here.
Thanks again.
Mukul
On Sun, Jun 6, 2021 at 10:57 PM Ond?ej Sur? <ondrej at sury.org> wrote:
> Hi Mukul,
>
> don?t worry - the community here is friendly and helpful and you should
> not run into any hard problems. Take it as an opportunity to learn
> something new!
>
> Ond?ej
> - former Knot DNS team lead
> - current BIND 9 team lead
> --
> Ond?ej Sur? <ondrej at sury.org> (He/Him)
>
> On 6. 6. 2021, at 18:50, Mukul Shukla via nsd-users <
> nsd-users at lists.nlnetlabs.nl> wrote:
>
> ?
>
> Dear All,
>
> There are very few articles/tutorials on NSD. This is making me nervous
> to adapt it for a long use. If I am stuck, there is no help to refer to.
> Man pages are just not sufficient for the people like me who don't have
> much experience of the system administration and implementing DNS
> Authoritative Server in particular. Other DNS implementations have very
> good manuals. The kind of software NSD is, there should have been books
> written on them.
>
> Mukul
>
> On Sun, Jun 6, 2021 at 9:06 PM Anand Buddhdev via nsd-users <
> nsd-users at lists.nlnetlabs.nl> wrote:
>
>> On 06/06/2021 16:26, mj via nsd-users wrote:
>>
>> Hi MJ,
>>
>> > Actually: we are in a similar situation. We're currently
running bind9,
>> > and were interested in to switching to NSD for the authorative dns
>> > services, but it seems that you have to compile newer releases
(with
>> > security fixes etc) yourself, or there is a repo somewhere
we're
>> missing?
>> >
>> > We're on debian 10. It recommended to simply install the NSD
that debian
>> > comes with, and rely on debian for the security fixes?
>>
>> Debian packages are often well behind upstream releases. For example,
>> Debian 10 (buster) still has NSD 4.1.26, whereas the upstream version
is
>> 4.3.6.
>>
>> However, for Debian, there's usually a repository called backports.
If
>> you enable it, you can get newer versions of packages. For example,
>> "buster-backports" currently has NSD 4.3.5 in it. You could
also enable
>> the "experimental" repo and get the latest 4.3.6 release.
>>
>> Regards,
>> Anand
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