[nflug] DNS Question

[David J. Andruczyk]

--- anthonyriga <torrodimerda at yahoo.com> wrote:

> The debian one I am gonna try instructions look good
> and dhcp and dns are on the same box.. Only question
> is why is this something that is is not in any of the
> installs of Linux? Shoudnt something like this be
> built in to the distrubutions? A simple gui frontend
> too? I have seen the frontend on Redhat and its not
> user frendly although I do find sometime editing
> named.conf easier then gui.. But tell that to a
> Windows admin and they freak!  Windows one is pretting
> simple to setup and its already does dynamic updating.

Not everyone wants it and it's a security risk if setup improperly. 
Unix/Linux tends to focus more on security than "user friendliness".



-- David J. Andruczyk

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