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MIND by Acme Technologies
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MIND was the first DNS server available for Macintosh. It has been successfully running on hundreds of sites since its initial beta release in February 1995. Acme Technologies has recently acquired the product and will release a new version soon. You'll be able to download and use the existing beta version until the new one is ready. For more information use the URL below:
http://mind.acmetech.com/at/mind/
Features
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Two-way zone transfers (it will function as a secondary DNS
automatically)
Remote monitoring and configuration. Edit hosts files or watch the logs
from anywhere on a TCP/IP network.
Full caching support.
Plus all the existing features.
Serve name to address and address to name mapping.
Supports: $ORIGIN, $INCLUDE, SOA, MX, A, CNAME, HINFO, PTR, and TXT
records.
One-way Zone transfers (will act as primary). MIND will function
perfectly well as a secondary DNS, but since it can't request a zone
transfer from another server, it must be manually synchronized with the
primaries.
QuickDNS by Men and Mice
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Men & Mice have released QuickDNS Lite and QuickDNS Pro, two new Internet Domain Name Servers for the Macintosh. QuickDNS is currently the only commercially available Domain Name Server for the Macintosh. For more information use the URL below:
http://www.menandmice.com/QuickDNS/QuickDNS.html
QuickDNS Pro
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QuickDNS Pro is a new fully featured Internet Domain Name Server for the Macintosh. QuickDNS Pro does recursive lookups, zone-transfers and can act as a primary and/or secondary server for an unlimited number of domains.
QuickDNS Pro ships with a program to edit domain information, QuickDNS Admin. QuickDNS Admin is a domain editor which can be used to create, edit, delete and verify domains, import RFC-files (Unix-format) and view the status of QuickDNS Pro.
Running an Internet connection no longer requires a Unix-system. Although WWW, FTP and Mail Servers have been available for the Macintosh, a Domain Name Server has been the missing link for those who want to run a Macintosh only Internet connection.
Every domain on the Internet requires DNS service. The DNS is the invisible service that all the other Internet programs rely on. Every company connected to the Internet has at least one DNS to say who's who on the network.
General features of QuickDNS Pro:
Recursive name service
Primary name service
Secondary name service (available Feb.'96)
Domain editor - For creating and editing domain information
Accelerated for Power Macintosh
Eliminates the need for DNS running on a UNIX server
Load balancing - A Round robin assignment of IP addresses to the single
machine name spreads the load among multiple servers (that is, supports
Redundant Array of Inexpensive Computers (RAIC))
Serves an unlimited number of secondary and primary domains
Imports RFC-files (Unix-format domain information)
Fully interrupt-driven operation
Keeps millisecond-accurate statistics about each name server queried
and uses them to tune server performances
Wildcard support in queries
Smart cache maintenance
Logging
QuickDNS Lite
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QuickDNS Lite is a caching-only name server that gives a recursive name service to a network. It can not be used to create or modify domains and it can neither be a primary, nor a secondary name server. Installation of QuickDNS Lite is plug and play.
QuickDNS Lite is a perfect bundle with all Internet Servers. QuickDNS Lite running on the same machine as a WWW, Mail or FTP server can increase performance and robustness of the server.
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