BIND 9 vs BIND 8 speed

[Barry Finkel]

Saad Kadhi <bsdguy at docisland.org> replied to a posting:

>so apart from features that are not yet implemented in BIND 9 (such as
>rrset-order...at least in 9.2.1), why would one use BIND 8 ?

I am still running BIND 8 because the hardware on which my servers
is running (SPARCstation-5) is not fast enough for BIND 9.  I will
shortly move to Sun Blade hardware, which is fast enough.
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