On: A love letter to ISC bind

[kazen44]

i have found BIND to be troublesome for running large(r) scale workloads.

Also, dealing with zone files just gets annoying, especially compared to DNS servers that support database backends.

[YesThatTom2 → kazen44]

I don't like managing a lot of zones, so I wrote a language that outputs zone files: https://dnscontrol.org

[toast0 → kazen44]

I haven't had to run large workloads, but for smaller workloads, having a zone file in version control is so much nicer than fiddling with a database.

[kazen44 → toast0]

i kind of agree with you their. but managing zone files when you have a couple of thousand of domains just becomes nearly impossible. also, lack of an api makes it even harder.

personally I have been very happy with powerdns for a very long time. BIND works, but IMO is more of a legacy application compared to modern alternatives.