On Sat, Jan 18, 2003 at 07:37:17PM +0100, Sergio Talens-Oliag wrote: > > This ITP doesn't identify any distinguishing characteristics that would > > explain why someone would want to use this DNS server instead of one of > > the other 9 DNS servers already available in sid. Please explain this > > in your long description, both to help users pick the right package for > > their needs, and to help other maintainers contend with archive bloat. > Well, I see it as a lightweight alternative to bind and I think it's > good because its simple, functional and easily auditable, but maybe > it's only my personal opinion. > > (Or do you believe being written in Python is sufficient reason to > > choose this package over the others?) > No, I don't believe that the programming language used to write a > program is sufficient to choose it against others with similar > capabilities, but if you try some of the DNS packages in debian you'll > notice that, apart from bind, the majority of them need a RDBS or have > less features than this one. Can you tell me (because I don't know) which features maradns and pdns (using pdns-backend-xdb) lack compared to oak? From their descriptions, they sound similar to oak; perhaps the descriptions of these other packages need to be improved? -- Steve Langasek postmodern programmer
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