Distribution by Domain Server Software
Jan 2007

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)
  71686 BIND
  14725 Microsoft
   2194 TinyDNS
   1100 PowerDNS
    522 simple DNS

  Count Server Software Version
  44119 BIND 9.2.3rc1 -- 9.4.0a0 
  12808 BIND 9.2.0rc7 -- 9.2.2-P3 
   8608 BIND 8.3.0-RC1 -- 8.4.4 
   8165 Microsoft Windows 2003 
   5876 Microsoft Windows 2000 
   2555 BIND 8.1-REL -- 8.2.1-T4B 
   2177 TinyDNS 1.05 
   1661 BIND 8.2.2-P3 -- 8.3.0-T2A 
   1036 BIND 4.9.3 -- 4.9.11 
    747 PowerDNS 2.9.4 -- 2.9.11 
    678 Microsoft Windows NT4 
    570 BIND 9.1.0 -- 9.1.3 
    522 simple DNS plus 
    358 MyDNS 
    353 PowerDNS 2.8 -- 2.9.3 
    174 Cisco CNR 
    167 totd 
    116 BIND 9.2.0a1 -- 9.2.2-P3 
     62 BIND 4.8 -- 4.8.3 
     61 QuickDNS 
     52 NSD 1.2.3 
     49 incognito DNS Commander v2.3.1.1 -- 4.0.5.1 
     48 Nominum ANS 
     48 BIND 9.2.0rc4 -- 9.2.2-P3 
     38 BIND 8.4.1-p1 
     30 pliant DNS Server 
     25 BIND 9.2.0a1 -- 9.2.0rc3 
     21 Nominum CNS 
     21 BIND 9.2.0rc4 -- 9.2.2-P3query timed out 
     17 TinyDNS 1.04 
     16 UltraDNS v2.7.0.2 -- 2.7.3 
     15 Viking DNS module 
     14 Netnumber ENUM server 
     10 sheerdns 
      8 BIND 9.0.0b5 -- 9.1.3 
      8 BIND 9.0.0b5 -- 9.0.1 
      6 Microsoft Windows 2K3 (probably) 
      5 rbldnsd 
      5 MaraDNS 
      5 Fasthosts Envisage DNS server 
      4 unknown, smells like old BIND 4 
      3 nomde DNS tunnel 
      3 JDNSS 
      2 BIND 9.2.0rc4 -- 9.2.0rc6 
      1 pdnsd 
      1 Posadis 
      1 NonSequitur DNS 
      1 NSD 1.0 alpha 
      1 BIND 8.2.1 

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