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Hi,
On Mar 2, 2024, at 4:57 AM, Lee <ler...@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Sat, Mar 2, 2024 at 1:53 AM Turritopsis Dohrnii Teo En Ming via
> dns-operations <dns-operati...@dns-oarc.net> wrote:
>>
>> As I checked with ChatGPT, it says ISC BIND DNS Server is the most popular
>> DNS server software in the world.
ChatGPT is the weaponization of “I saw it on the Internet so it must be true."
> I'm guessing that "most popular" is what most home users use
Probably.
> - which seems to be pi-hole
I’d be very surprised if this were the case. I’d have thought the vast
majority of what end users would use (at least on the recursive side) would be
whatever their ISP was providing, which I strongly suspect is not pi-hole.
> If you want to define "most popular" as what the root servers
This would be an odd definition of “most popular”.
> If you want to define "most popular" as DNS servers accessible on the
> Internet, I'd kind of like to know too. Maybe bind, maybe not.. I dunno.
Historically (as in the 80s and 90s), it was probably BIND because it was
pretty much the only DNS package out there. My memory was that when Microsoft
came out with Active Directory (and, to a lesser extent djbdns), BIND’s market
share dropped rapidly. There was (is) a tool known as “fpdns” that could be
used to provide interesting stats on what DNS servers were running, but I
believe this stopped being effective as developers ‘fixed’ the information
leakage fpdns made use of.
Fortunately, there are a lot of name servers, both authoritative and recursive,
out there these days so monoculture concerns aren’t that significant anymore.
Regards,
-drc
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