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USENIX Technical Program - Abstract - USENIX 99
The Design of the Dents DNS Server
Todd Lewis, MindSpring Enterprises
Abstract
Dents is a server implementation of the Internet's Domain
name System. Dents main features are a modular
driver architecture, a CORBA-based control facility,
a replaceable tree system, a clean design and good
karma. Dents is free software, licensed under version
2 of the GPL. In this paper, I describe the design of
Dents, concentrating on the innovations and evolutions
it embodies, and including the future directions in
which we hope to take the server. I describe some of
the problems we've had. Finally, I summarize some
lessons about server design which Dents reflects.
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