Diversity and sexiness is great. More choices and more folks doing DNS work can't help but make the industry is better.
Sent from my iPhone > On May 14, 2014, at 7:26 PM, Paul Vixie <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > Wayne MacLaurin wrote: >> Bind 9.11 >> >> Can’t imagine we’ll see another attempt at a ground up rebuild anytime >> soon….. > > maybe not by ISC. but based on the success of BIND9, NSD, Knot, Unbound, > Yadifa, and PowerDNS, i think we will see more implementations of DNS as > time goes on. because, you guessed it, DNS is sexy. > > based on the fact that BIND 9.10 has a "map" file type that cuts startup > time to "de minimis" or less even for large zones, in the same style > long employed by NSD, i think it's safe to say that BIND9 did not need a > total rewrite as much as i thought it did when i launched that project. > see also: > > http://www.circleid.com/posts/20140430_wow_bind9_910_is_out_and_what_a_list_of_features/ > > having left ISC on July 1 2013 in a management buyout of the ISC > Security business unit (now known as Farsight Security), i don't have > any remaining say over what problems ISC decides to tackle. but i do > notice that operators seem to have a love/hate relationship with code > base diversity, and i do notice that some implementors want to work on a > common management interface so they can configure their name service in > a standard language or protocol, and then plug different servers into > it. learning every new server's config syntax and log file format is a > pain. so, maybe that's a good public benefit thing to work on that isn't > yet-another-nameserver-implementation. > > vixie > _______________________________________________ > dns-operations mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.dns-oarc.net/mailman/listinfo/dns-operations > dns-jobs mailing list > https://lists.dns-oarc.net/mailman/listinfo/dns-jobs _______________________________________________ dns-operations mailing list [email protected] https://lists.dns-oarc.net/mailman/listinfo/dns-operations dns-jobs mailing list https://lists.dns-oarc.net/mailman/listinfo/dns-jobs
