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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:De Facto by Tet · · Score: 5, Interesting
    People are familiar with it, so despite the fact that BIND and sendmail are absolute abominations, they get used.

    Sigh. Y'know, I really should get used to sendmail FUD on Slashdot, but here I am feeding the trolls anyway. I use sendmail because it's better than the alternatives, and it's far from an abomination. I'm not going to claim the syntax looks good at first glance, but then most perl programs look like line noise too, yet the Slashdot crowd doesn't seem to have a problem with that. When other MTAs can match Sendmail's flexibility, then maybe I'll consider switching. But not before.

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  2. You really see which DNS does heavy lifting. by Inoshiro · · Score: 5, Interesting

    Ratio of BIND domains serviced to installs: 24,335,752 / 340,345 = 71.5 domains/server.

    Ration of MS DNS domains to installs: 2,165,143 / 101,781 = 21.27 domains/server.

    Ratio of TinyDNS domains to installs: 5,405,266 / 12,130 = 445.6 domains/server!

    Despite only having 2% of the installs, TinyDNS serves 15% of all domains on the internet. Obviousy it is very capable, and has few to no exploits available for it. Why don't more people use TinyDNS if it's so capable?

    Because they haven't read how easy it is to setup!

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  3. Hasn't been updated in years?? by embo · · Score: 5, Interesting

    ...since D. J. Bernstein's hasn't been updated for years...

    Maybe because it hasn't needed updating.

    http://cr.yp.to/djbdns/guarantee.html

  4. Re:De Facto by SWroclawski · · Score: 5, Interesting

    Please tell me something Sendmail does that Postfix doesn't.

    I'd argue Postfix is more modular, more simple to configure, more respectful of system resources, more secure and more flexible than Sendmail.