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by kazen44 1945 days ago
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.

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