Using different OS for Master and Slaves

[John Levine]

In article <mailman.149.1573678671.733.bind-users at lists.isc.org> you write:
>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.

I have masters running NSD on FreeBSD and a slave running bind on
linux.  It's not unduly hard to manage, give or take some kludgery in
the scripts that manage the config files, but that's because NSD is
different from bind, not because FreeBSD is different from linux.