djbdns is a suite of programs for client and server side of the DNS protocol written by Prof. Dan Bernstein.

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Preconditions

djbdns

• is one of the exotic software packages and
• has local software requirements.
• is compiled with diet libc and
• needs several patches - which are already included in our sources.
• runit
• daemontools multilog.

Get the source

We maintain the patched source tree in our Darcs repository.

cd /opt
darcs get http://at.magma-soft.at/darcs/djbdns/

Compile and Install

sudo true

PATH=/opt/diet/bin:$PATH

cd /opt/djbdns || cat >&2
make
sudo make setup check

Setup

We run the DNS servers unter runit and log with ?svlogd (or ?multilog when it’s easier to achieve).