BIND 4 is more common than BIND 9

Mark.Andrews at nominum.com Mark.Andrews at nominum.com
Thu Aug 9 22:32:13 UTC 2001


> 
> MK> The reason BIND 4 is more common than BIND 9 (and would you please
> MK> show some numbers to support that claim? Off your web site,
> MK> preferably) [...]
> 
> Why would you prefer data published on Dan's web site ?  Is the rest of the
> World Wide Web not good enough in some way ?  What way ?
> 
> According to Bill Manning's web page at
> <URL:http://www.isi.edu./~bmanning/in-addr-versions.html>, BIND version 4
> accounted for 17% of the "in-addr.arpa." content DNS servers in the 2nd
> quarter of 2000, and BIND version 9 accounted for 0%.

	Hardly suprising give BIND 9.1.0 was the first BIND 9 release
	recommend for production.  BIND 9.0.x was advertised as
	experimental.

revision 1.18.4.3
date: 2001/01/17 18:57:08;  author: gson;  state: Exp;  lines: +3 -3
bumped to 9.1.0

> 
> Bill says that he has survey data for 2001.  He hasn't published it, though. 
> I, and (I suspect) many others, would be interested in seeing it.
> 

	Mark
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