bind vs djbdns

[Bob Vance]

I agree.
I didn't take it as a promotion for your product, but as response to some
negative comments by other people (and I'm not commenting on the validity
of any of those or your rebuttals).
I don't have dog in this fight and even though it's been a little
vitriolic at times I have found it interesting.
Competition is always good.  Microsoft doesn't seem to be worried that
"BIND is the reference implementation".

Caveat emptor.


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-----Original Message-----
From: djb-dsn-967710283.32556 at cr.yp.to
[mailto:djb-dsn-967710283.32556 at cr.yp.to]On Behalf Of D. J. Bernstein
Sent: Thursday, August 31, 2000 4:25 AM
To: bind-users at isc.org
Subject: Re: bind vs djbdns



Benjamin Madsen writes:
> creating traffic on this mailing list

I didn't start this discussion. I wouldn't have said anything if there
hadn't been so much misinformation posted by certain people who, by a
strange coincidence, have strong financial interests in BIND.

> Quit trying to push your product based on the premise that it will save a
> few minutes of somebody's time.

Ease of use is more than just a time-saver. It also reduces errors. It
gives you confidence that your actions will have the desired results. I
don't want to worry about trailing dots, for example, or worry about
failure notices hidden in a log file somewhere.

Anyway, ease of use is only one of the reasons that people are switching
to djbdns. See http://cr.yp.to/djbdns/ad.html for more reasons. The
decisive issue for many people is that the BIND company is scared to
offer a cash reward for security holes.

---Dan