djbdns: An alternative to BIND

Fri Apr 8 23:50:51 UTC 2005

vickyr at socal.rr.com (Vicky Rode) writes:

> http://software.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=05/04/06/197203&from=rss

i'm struck by the persistent rumours repeated by this text:

	Those who have been concerned with the number of security
	vulnerabilities found in the BIND server through the years,
        ...

BIND9, being a different code base from the ones DJB has complained
about, has already dealt with the "security vulnerabilities in BIND
through the years".  some day DJB and his followers should switch to
the current decade when looking for things to complain about, maybe.

> Just wondering how many have transitioned to djbdns from bind and if so
> any feedback.

if "transition" were a verb, i could point you at:

        http://www.isc.org/ops/ds/reports/2005-01/dist-servsoft.php

(sorry about the frames, we're removing them, really), wherein it is writ:

  Count Server Software
  77929 BIND
  16000 Microsoft
   2193 TinyDNS
    564 PowerDNS
    556 simple DNS
   1038 others

  Count Server Software Version
  36299 BIND 9.2.0rc7 -- 9.2.2-P3 
  20202 BIND 9.2.3rc1 -- 9.4.0a0 
  15396 BIND 8.3.0-RC1 -- 8.4.4 
  10069 Microsoft Windows 2000 
   3860 Microsoft Windows 2003 
   2673 BIND 4.9.3 -- 4.9.11 
   2163 TinyDNS 1.05 
   2053 Microsoft Windows NT4 
   1606 BIND 9.1.0 -- 9.1.3 
   1009 BIND 8.2.2-P3 -- 8.3.0-T2A 
...

note, that's just the servers found in this survey, and might not be
representative of the full set (if there were such a thing as "full"
in light of known horizion variability.)
-- 
Paul Vixie