WHY use Linux/Bind insted of NT

Igmar Palsenberg maillist at chello.nl
Wed Sep 20 16:53:24 UTC 2000


On Tue, 19 Sep 2000, Peter McLarty wrote:

> Hello all
> 
> I am having a discussion with my boss as to why I shouldnt move my
> current Linux/Bind DNS server  to a NT/MS DNS server. We are changing
> our  ISPs in the next couple of weeks and when I mentioned that we
> needed to build an new DNS server to facilitate the relocation he
> wanted to know why we dont use an NT server for this. I will let you
> know that I have little time for MS products generally so my position
> is if it already works on Linux and the stuff is free then why would
> you use NT as you would have to pay for it.
> 
> Can anyone give me any rather good technical reasons to keep using the
> Linux/Bind installation?

1) NT costs money
2) NT is overbloated
3) NT bugs
4) In case of problems don't expect help from Microsoft
5) UNIX problems are easier to fix than M$ problems.



	Igmar




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