Tutorial: Buck DNS Monoculture with BIND Alternatives

Posted by Scott_Ruecker on Aug 1, 2008 4:49 AM EDT
LinuxPlanet; By Carla Schroder
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DNS is fundamental to network operations, but rather surprisingly, given the usual free/open source software community's habit of having multiple versions of everything, it has evolved into a DNS server monoculture dominated by ISC BIND (Berkeley Internet Name Domain). All other issues aside, such as security and performance, monoculture is not healthy. There's a whole world outside of BIND; a pleasant world full of DNS servers that are simple to configure, and reliable and secure to use.

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