This section describes installing \[http://www.isc.org BIND\] (Berkeley Internet Name Daemon) in a caching configuration on the system.  BIND is the standard nameserver in use on the Internet today.  More internet servers run BIND than any other nameserver daemon.  There are also other Several alternative DNS nameservers in common use. Here are a few.  are described in their own sections below.

The \[http://www.debian.org Debian\] system uses APT (Advanced Package Tool) to manage the system.  The following commands will install BIND (Berkeley Internet Name Daemon) version 9 on the system.

\[http://cr.yp.to/djbdns.html djbdns\] / \[http://tinydns.org/ tinydns\] is D. J. Bernstein's DNS daemon.   If you have a good guide to the commands required to install this on a typical system, please edit this page and fill out this section.

\[http://www.corpit.ru/mjt/rbldnsd.html rbldnsd\] is a small and fast DNS daemon which is especially made to serve DNSBL zones. This daemon was inspired by Dan J. Bernstein's rbldns program found in the djbdns package.  The \[http://www.surbl.org/dnscache-rbldnsd.html rbldnsd FAQ\] at surbl.org.