One Domain; Multiple IPs.

[D. J. Bernstein]

BIND company employee Jim Reid writes:
> if you think you can design and document
> better protocols than AXFR and IXFR

I don't have to. Other people have done the work already. As my table
shows, AXFR and IXFR are amazingly far behind the state of the art in
replication tools.

> Your comparison table between djbdns and BIND

It's a comparison between rsync and zone transfers.

The reason that BIND company people talk about it as djbdns-versus-BIND
is that they don't support rsync.

For example, when people on this mailing list ask how to automatically
replicate views, the BIND company never tells them how easy this is to
do with rsync. They haven't answered Tony Shah's question, for example.

One of the major benefits of rsync for system administrators is that
it's a general-purpose tool that works with many programs. It's clear
why the BIND company insists on reinventing the wheel, and making sure
that the reinvented wheel is a pain for other programs to use: this
helps achieve product lock-in. This is also why the BIND company always
refers to their specific wheel (IXFR, for example) rather than what the
system administrator wants (incremental transfers).

---Dan