Using different OS for Master and Slaves

[Barry Margolin]

In article <mailman.144.1573569770.733.bind-users at lists.isc.org>,
 Reindl Harald <h.reindl at thelounge.net> wrote:

> Am 12.11.19 um 14:00 schrieb G.W. Haywood via bind-users:
> > Hi there,
> > 
> > On Tue, 12 Nov 2019, Mundile wrote:
> > 
> >> Is it good idea and possible to create Master and Slaves nameservers
> >> using different OSes.
> >> For example , Master OS =Centos 7 and Slaves Os=Ubuntu 18 or  Windows
> >> 2016
> > 
> > It depends on whether or not you enjoy pain
> 
> there shouldn't be any pain from a technical point of view and there is
> one security case which could be solved with mixing:

I suspect the pain he was referring to is not really DNS-specific, but 
just due to having to manage servers with different operating systems. 
This means using a more diverse set of management tools, different 
configuration syntax, etc.

-- 
Barry Margolin
Arlington, MA