Distribution by Domain Server Software
Jul 2006

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 (top 5 summarized)
  70275 BIND
  14699 Microsoft
   2104 TinyDNS
    915 PowerDNS
    519 simple DNS

  Count Server Software Version
  37632 BIND 9.2.3rc1 -- 9.4.0a0 
  15543 BIND 9.2.0rc7 -- 9.2.2-P3 
   9660 BIND 8.3.0-RC1 -- 8.4.4 
   7016 Microsoft Windows 2003 
   6714 Microsoft Windows 2000 
   3077 BIND 8.1-REL -- 8.2.1-T4B 
   2083 TinyDNS 1.05 
   2009 BIND 8.2.2-P3 -- 8.3.0-T2A 
   1286 BIND 4.9.3 -- 4.9.11 
    961 Microsoft Windows NT4 
    707 BIND 9.1.0 -- 9.1.3 
    625 PowerDNS 2.9.4 -- 2.9.11 
    519 simple DNS plus 
    355 MyDNS 
    290 PowerDNS 2.8 -- 2.9.3 
    198 totd 
    195 Cisco CNR 
    143 BIND 9.2.0a1 -- 9.2.2-P3 
     86 BIND 4.8 -- 4.8.3 
     77 QuickDNS 
     56 NSD 1.2.3 
     49 incognito DNS Commander v2.3.1.1 -- 4.0.5.1 
     42 pliant DNS Server 
     40 BIND 9.2.0rc4 -- 9.2.2-P3 
     36 BIND 8.4.1-p1 
     25 BIND 9.2.0a1 -- 9.2.0rc3 
     21 TinyDNS 1.04 
     19 Nominum ANS 
     16 Nominum CNS 
     15 Viking DNS module 
     14 UltraDNS v2.7.0.2 -- 2.7.3 
     11 BIND 9.2.0rc4 -- 9.2.2-P3query timed out 
      9 sheerdns 
      9 BIND 9.0.0b5 -- 9.1.3 
      8 Microsoft Windows 2K3 (probably) 
      7 BIND 9.0.0b5 -- 9.0.1 
      6 MaraDNS 
      5 unknown, smells like old BIND 4 
      5 rbldnsd 
      5 JDNSS 
      5 Fasthosts Envisage DNS server 
      3 nomde DNS tunnel 
      3 NonSequitur DNS 
      3 BIND 9.2.0rc4 -- 9.2.0rc6 
      1 pdnsd 
      1 Posadis 
      1 NSD 1.0.2 
      1 BIND 8.2.1 

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