MacOS 9 and earlier versions were not designed for servers. Despite this MacOS often forms the basis for low to medium range servers when ease of administration is more important than that last 0.1% of uptime. There is at least one robust DNS server for MacOS.
QuickDNS from Men and Mice is a commercial fully functional DNS server, including a slick GUI configuration frontend. High performance is a feature that is stressed by the vendor. This product is currently the main choice for sites that wish to use MacOS as the platform for DNS.
http://www.menandmice.com/QuickDNS/
MacDNS is a free Apple product, now somewhat dated. I have not tested it fully, but it appears to satisfactorily support inward and outward transfers, has an `Apple interface', and supports stub resolvers by forwarding recursive queries to a designated recursive name server in the manner of a slave forwarder. There may be interoperability problems with post-8.0 versions of MacOS.
http://cybertech.apple.com/MacDNS.html
NonSequitur (formerly MIND) is a rather dated free implementation of a DNS server for MacOS. It does not support inward transfers or recursion, so its use is probably limited to sites where all resolvers are capable of recursion (this is true for MacOS), or as a hidden master server.
http://www.gross.net/sw/nonsequitur/
Pictorius Net Servers is a set of network servers including a DNS server, bundled into a single free application. The vendor, Pictorius Inc, appears to be focusing on selling add-ons to the servers.
http://www.pictorius.com/main/products/net_servers/netservers.html
Carl Steadman is co-author of the book `Providing Internet Services via the Mac OS' which is available on line. It includes a well-written though rapidly aging section on MacOS DNS servers, including a step by step introduction.
http://www.pism.com/ http://www.pism.com/dns/
MacOS X is expected to have a large range of DNS server options, based on its Unix roots. Details would be welcome.
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