Re: My criticisms of DjbDNS

["Richard Letts" <richard@illuin.org>]

On 3/14/07, Sam Trenholme <sam+djbdns@chaosring.org> wrote:

Djbdns was the best DNS option available when it came out. That was
over five years ago. Since then, the internet has changed and djbdns has
not kept up. Now that BIND9 and MaraDNS have a proven security record,
and are both under an open-source license and being actively maintained,
there is no longer any reason to use djbdns.

Sigh. you need an economics class. In order to be at a competitive advantage you have to have (amongst other things) high barriers to entry, as exemplified by high switching costs. 

djbdns is integrated into all of the scripts on my systems that maintain the DNS locally. Switching to anything else would take me the best part of a day, and I can think of things that have a higher return on my time (
e.g. adding stuff to nagios for the 10 common things I got asked about yesterday). 

Sorry, like the PS3 in Europe: you might be better, but you're too late.

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/RjL