Distribution by Domain Server Software
Jan 2004

The domain servers contacted during the Domain Survey were also run through some fingerprinting software to try to determine what software they were running. This is still considered experimental. The results are summarized below in two different tables. The fingerprinting software used was developed by Jakob Schlyter and Roy Arends.

  Count Server Software
  74698 BIND
  14539 Microsoft
   1887 TinyDNS
    797 simple DNS
    324 others


  Count Server Software Version
  36134 BIND 9.2.0rc7 -- 9.2.2-P3 
  15434 BIND 8.3.0-RC1 -- 8.4.3 
  14570 BIND 8.2.2-P3 -- 8.3.0-T2A 
  10267 Microsoft Windows 2000 
   4593 BIND 9.2.3rc1 -- 9.4.0a0 
   3151 Microsoft Windows NT4 
   3003 BIND 9.1.0 -- 9.1.3 
   1850 TinyDNS 1.05 
   1121 Microsoft Windows 2003 
    797 simple DNS plus 
    515 BIND 9.2.0a1 -- 9.2.2-P3 
    153 BIND 8.2.1 
    126 PowerDNS 2.9.4 -- 2.9.11 
     91 BIND 9.2.0rc4 -- 9.2.2-P3 
     80 incognito DNS Commander v2.3.1.1 -- 4.0.5.1 
     74 BIND 9.2.0a1 -- 9.2.0rc3 
     71 PowerDNS 2.8 -- 2.9.3 
     40 BIND 8.4.1-p1 
     37 TinyDNS 1.04 
     32 BIND 9.0.0b5 -- 9.0.1 
     25 Nominum CNS 
     23 BIND 8 plus root-server modification 
     19 BIND 9.2.0rc4 -- 9.2.2-P3query timed out 
     17 BIND 9.2.0rc4 -- 9.2.0rc6 
     14 UltraDNS v2.7.0.2 -- 2.7.3 
     13 UNKNOWN
      7 MaraDNS 
      2 NonSequitur DNS 

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