[NTLUG:Discuss] Bind sucks (off topic)

[A.L.Lambert]

> Come on, guys--give credit where credit is due. Were it not for bind,
> the Net would not be what it is today.  

	I'm not arguing that; I'm saying, that BIND is badly coded,
needlessly complex, and horribly designed from a software design
standpoint. Just because it serves a lot of DNS on the net, doesn't make
it not suck.

> The bind suite is an incredibly complicated and ever changing work of
> masters--I defy you or anyone else to come up with something that
> works nearly as well as nearly as much of the time.
>
> Go read the code for bind; 

	I have.  I wasn't impressed.

> learn the RFC's.  Then if you can come up with something better, do
> it--and then I'll listen to complaints that Bind Sucks.

	I don't need to come up with something better, someone else
already has.  Go to http://cr.yp.to/djbdns.html.  It's more reliable than
BIND, more stable than BIND, more secure than BIND, higher performance
than BIND, easier to configure/manage than BIND, better code than BIND,
etc.  Cheers!


-- A.L.Lambert
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Everything should be made as simple as possible, but not simpler.
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