What % is bind?

[Kevin Darcy]

shiva at well.com wrote:

> alexm at ovate.com (Alex Madden) wrote in news:9fr20l$ntu at pub3.rc.vix.com:
>
> > Win2k - Active Directory based DNS systems I would imagine.
> >
> > MS have finally produced a DNS system, which has passable reliability.
> >
> > I wonder how long passes before people are happy enough with it to run
> > root NS on it?
>
> Reliability issues aside, there's an operator competence issue here. Browse
> news:microsoft.public.win2000.dns and compare the level of questions there
> to those in this newsgroup. MS admins have had a DNS requirement dropped on
> them with no background on how the system is supposed to work. A pretty GUI
> can't fix that. Unix people, OTOH, are used to having to read a bit to get
> software working.
>
> I expect BIND operators will soon be in demand as contractors to Win2k
> shops to fix their DNS setups.

And all of us BIND operators should of course stand firm and refuse to help
them. "You bought Win2K; you live with the consequences".


- Kevin