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On 2/3/2024 9:54 pm, David Conrad wrote:
> 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
>
It is compulsory for Microsoft Active Directory Domain Controllers to have a
DNS server. And Microsoft provided a Windows-based GUI DNS server.
Regards,
Mr. Turritopsis Dohrnii Teo En Ming
Targeted Individual in Singapore
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