BIND - how predominant?

[Michael Voight]

Great info.
However, what difference does it make to the original poster, since
non-BIND and BIND DNS servers MUST be compatible or name resolution
fails.
We have issues doing zone transfers with our non BIND server to or from
non BIND servers.

Michael

Bill Manning wrote:
> 
> >
> > WITHOUT going into a flame war about how BIND is (or isn't) superior to
> > every other flavor of DNS around....
> >
> > Can someone point me to an AUTHORITATIVE resource which states the
> > percentage of DNS servers on the net (or in the public & private world)
> > which run a flavor of BIND on a flavor of Unix?  I need this info as
> > research for a presentation.
> >
> > Erik J. Sawyer
> > NTP Consulting
> 
> Tough call.  My own studies indicate that from a position of 99.2% (the
> 0.8% was indeterminate) penetration (sample size of 380021 zones - 3q97)
> In the last run, (sample size of 649331 zones - 2q99) Bind has dropped
> to 94.6%, with the other contenders (looks like four-six varients, two
> of which are likely independent source trees) each less than 2.0% each.
> 
> Non-responsive/invisable servers went from 5% to 18% during the same
> period.  YMMV
>         --------------------------------------------------
> 
> --bill