Amiga Name Servers???

[Trev]

@AMC258

Unless you're ignoring reponse TTLs (typically 1 hour) and caching responses indefinitely, a local name server shouldn't be any faster than the caching forwarders provided by most home routers or your operating system, if you leave your system running. DNS is such a lightweight service that I can't imagine the average consumer ISP's name servers being overloaded.

@impactor

If you're serious about learning the ins and outs of DNS, you'll want to run a more recent version of BIND. If you're serious about using your Amiga hardware for the task, take a look at NetBSD: http://www.netbsd.org/ports/amiga/. You'll have fun experimenting on Amiga OS, but it just wasn't designed for what you're asking it to do.

For small, privately-owned domains, it's best to just use a third-party service like ZoneEdit.com. Regardless of your choice, have fun!

Trev

[Trev]

@impactor

It should. It should also run the latest version: http://www.isc.org/sw/bind/view?release=9.4.2. If you can't find precompiled binaries, you can build it yourslef, although you'll want to get a cup of coffee, take a nap, or perhaps take a short vacation while you're waiting for it to compile. ;-)

O'Reilly's DNS and BIND is an excellent reference: http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/dns5/index.html.

It really would be much easier to just learn to manage BIND under Windows or Linux (or whatever you're most familiar with) and then attempt a configuration on the Amiga. The issues you'll encounter configuring BIND will most likely have nothing to do with BIND itself and will probably just serve as lessons in compilation, API emulation,  and AmiTCP weirdness as well as bring out the aged hardware gremlins. I don't think anyone's trying to discourage your efforts, but you really do you have a much better chance at successfully learning and managing BIND on a proven platform.

Re: old Sun hardware. Fun boxes, but you already have a legacy platform to play with. ;-) For extra brownie points, use a DEC Multia.

Trev