8.3 vs 8.4

Mark admin at asarian-host.net
Fri Dec 5 23:48:38 UTC 2003


----- Original Message -----
From: "Jim Reid" <jim at rfc1035.com>
To: "Ossi" <ossi at pp.inet.fi>
Cc: <bind-users at isc.org>
Sent: Thursday, December 04, 2003 12:39 PM
Subject: Re: 8.3 vs 8.4

> > According to this document Bind 8 is faster than Bind 9
>
> True, but so what? Very few name servers get the sort of query
> load that means performance is truly critical.

> Yes, BIND9 uses more resources than BIND8. This simply won't matter
> unless someone is running a name server on tiny hardware, say an M68K
> box with 8MB of RAM.

Despite your rather arrogant presumption that people do not need a smaller
memory footprint, or faster processing of queries, truth is, that BIND9 is
bloated, slower, and still rather buggy. Ever since BIND9 came out there has
been an endless stream of patches, sub-releases, and fixes for all sorts of
things; some of which are rather serious, like common recursion errors. D.
J. Bernstein tracked them all down, and noted that since BIND 9.0.0b2, until
BIND 9.2.2rc1, the number of official bugs ran into, yes, ... six hundred
seventy-two!

So much for your "clean" and "coherent design". They started from scratch
with BIND9, so a lot of bugs are to be expected. But it also means BIND9,
for all purposes and intent, is still beta-ware. And it shows.

- Mark



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