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Posadis Readme
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Posadis is an open-source domain name server for various platforms, including
most modern Unix-like platforms such as FreeBSD, Linux and Mac OS X, and
Microsoft Win32-platforms. It basically has the following features (as of
0.60.0):

 o Primary operation: supports standard DNS master files, zone transfers and
   DNS notify
 o Secondary operation: supports zone transfers (both passively and actively)
   and DNS notify
 o Non-authoritative operation: can act both non-recursively and recursively
   (both forwarding and resolving)
 o Supports most modern RR types
 o Comes with comprehensive user documentation

Following the advice from the last point we mentioned, it is probably best to
just read the user documentation. It handles both installing and configuring
the DNS server. The user documentation is not included in this package though;
it is available in PDF and OpenOffice.org SXW formats from the Posadis website
at www.posadis.org.

Alternatively, if you run a Unix system, you can read the INSTALL file to
find out how to install Posadis. Additionally, at the tail of this file, you'll
find platform-specific build notes. Posadis is covered by the GNU General Public
License; you should read it if you haven't already done so; it is in the
COPYING file of this distribution. The ChangeLog, AUTHORS and TODO files have
their own obvious contents.

If you have any questions about Posadis, you can contact me at

  meilof@users.sourceforge.net

Good luck and have fun!

Platform-specific build notes
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Linux
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To use the FAM module, install the fam and fam development packages for your
disitribution. You might need to make sure fam starts at startup if you get
messages that Posadis is unable to connect to the FAM server.

FreeBSD
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If you want to use the FAM module on FreeBSD, you can install the FAM port from
the FreeBSD ports collection, it is in devel/fam. If the configure script still
can't locate the fam header (which occured to me on FreeBSD 4.3), you should
create a symbolic link to /usr/local/include/fam. in /usr/include, and create
symbolic links to the libfam* libraries in /usr/local/lib in /usr/lib. Also,
you will need to configure FAM to boot at startup, though I can't give you
instructions on how to do that.