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BIND Is Most Popular DNS Server

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the who'd-a-thunk-it? dept.

bleachboy writes "Last week I completed a new DNS server survey, since D. J. Bernstein's hasn't been updated for years. Not surprisingly, BIND wins. Why is it so hard for alternate DNS servers to gain favor, especially when BIND can be so frustrating sometimes? And yes, I'm shilling."

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  1. Re:Reasons why DJBDNS is not more common by embo · · Score: 4, Funny
    Its config file syntax is even more human-unfriendly than BIND's

    I've got to disagree with you when I can parse a zone file like this:

    while (<STDIN>) {
    $line = split(':', $_);
    for $line[0] {
    if (/Z/) { # Zone file }
    elsif (/+/) { # A Record }
    elsif (/\@/) { # MX Record }
    etc. etc. etc.
    }
    }
    All you need is this page to understand the entire format of any zone file: http://cr.yp.to/djbdns/tinydns-data.html For BIND, I need the entire manual. Maybe it's just me.