Re: DJBDNS vs BIND

On 5/4/2010 11:32 PM, Allen Schultz wrote:
> I was wondering what the (dis)advantages in using DJBDNS over BIND?
>
> Can you please shed some light into this?
a few that come to mind:

if you're familiar with BIND and comfortable with its zonefile 
nomenclature, it can take a little time to wrap your brain around the 
entirely different semantics of djbdns. I put off switching to djbdns 
for a couple of years after it came out, dreading learning a whole new 
way of doing dns. however, once i decided to make the switch, it took me 
perhaps an hour, maybe an hour and a half, to grok it. in retrospect i 
wish i hadn't been so timid. i much prefer the djbdns nomenclature now.

lower adoption compared to BIND means fewer sysadmins out there whose 
brains you might pick if you run into a problem. that's a theoretical 
disadvantage, at least. it's very rare the mailing list doesn't come 
through. that said, with installations of BIND numbering into the 
millions (i would guess), there's no shortage of expertise in BIND out 
there.

low interest in the code by the author. a few bugs and shortcomings to 
the code have been identified over the nearly a decade since 1.05 came 
out, but djb appears to have better things to do, which is his 
prerogative, but it would certainly be nice to perhaps see 1.06 someday. 
however, the code's public domain now, so there are assorted forks, and 
of course patches have always been available. it's a very minor 
disadvantage - since the code tends to just work, fixes are minimal.

pushback. since BIND's included with virtually every distribution of 
every unix and unix-like OS out there, there's also no shortage of 
people who believe that BIND's part of the OS, and that using something 
else is risky or foolish. this can be no small disadvantage in some 
circumstances.

that's all i can think of off the top of my head, though i'm sure 
there's others.

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