[79499] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: djbdns: An alternative to BIND
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Paul Vixie)
Fri Apr 8 21:12:02 2005
To: nanog@merit.edu
From: Paul Vixie <vixie@vix.com>
Date: 09 Apr 2005 01:11:35 +0000
In-Reply-To: <42572522.6070307@asbak.coding-slaves.com>
Errors-To: owner-nanog@merit.edu
niek@asbak.coding-slaves.com (Niek) writes:
> One could also put together a list based on:
> - Security holes.
in BIND9-- zero so far.
> - Amount of code
in BIND9--
% find . -name '*.[chyl]' -print | xargs wc -l | awk '{X+=$1} END {print X}'
687674
> - Bloatness
in BIND9-- none.
> - Seperation of functionality
in BIND9-- you got me on this one, we have one daemon that does everything.
> - # of seconds it takes to load huge amounts of zones
in BIND9-- you got me on this one.
in BIND9.3.1-- better but not good enough, BIND9.4 will be better still.
> In the end, it all comes down to religion:
no.
> Bind people don't ack djb points and vice versa.
i don't ack djb's existence, not merely his "points."
i'm happy to ack your points, and debate them, though.
--
Paul Vixie
