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Linux or BSD Distro for DNS Server?

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wlee

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I have several older class of machines. (Dell PIII 450 - 866) They all have between 384 and 512MB ram. I want to use them as secondary authority and/or caching DNS servers. Are there any distros, BSD or LINUX, that are somewhat "tailor made" for this application. I also would like them to be full GUI ( web and/or local desktop) setup and config. I *HATE* the shell. ( ls -l , chmod -755, blah,blah,blah" ) I've found a piece of SW based on bind for Windows called TreeWalk DNS, but I'm thinking BSD/Linux would be much better "uptime" and more secure. There's no way it's worth it to spend $500 per box for Win2k3 license. ( *ASS*uming it would even install on such classes of machines ) just for DNS. Any recommendations would be appreciated. TIA!
 
Webmin might work for management, but overall the shell is the way to go.

My choice is OpenBSD. Comes with BIND and sane defaults.
 
BIND will run fine on any system, pick the one that you know best. If you don't know any and you don't like the cli, you should probably stay away from any type of unix box.
 
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