One of the least appreciated strengths of the internet is its diversity. MS Office (macro viruses) and MS Outlook (all the other viruses) are great examples of how dangerous a homgenous environment can be - and so is BIND.
The logical conclusion is that we should all actively explore and support alternative solutions, and luckily the internet community seems to enjoy doing this anyway. I use MaraDNS - a simple, secure, open-source, well supported, low overhead authoritative and caching name server that does zone transfers (with a crap website, unfortunately).
So if you aren't hogtied by corporate policy, try an alternative - increase diversity - strengthen the internet. Just don't all switch to MaraDNS...
Brian: You don't need to follow me! You're all individuals! Crowd (together): Yes! We're all individuals! Individual: I'm not.
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One of the least appreciated strengths of the internet is its diversity. MS Office (macro viruses) and MS Outlook (all the other viruses) are great examples of how dangerous a homgenous environment can be - and so is BIND.
The logical conclusion is that we should all actively explore and support alternative solutions, and luckily the internet community seems to enjoy doing this anyway. I use MaraDNS - a simple, secure, open-source, well supported, low overhead authoritative and caching name server that does zone transfers (with a crap website, unfortunately).
So if you aren't hogtied by corporate policy, try an alternative - increase diversity - strengthen the internet. Just don't all switch to MaraDNS...
Brian: You don't need to follow me! You're all individuals!
Crowd (together): Yes! We're all individuals!
Individual: I'm not.