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After just a short search to try to come up with some numbers, I find that between 60% and 90% of internet DNS servers are running bind.

And yet somehow, the internet has much bigger problems...


Bold statement just one month after the last cache poisoning vulnerability. Bind is the Microsoft Windows of DNS servers - a lot of users and bugs nonetheless the go-to for many admins because that's what they are most familiar with. And similar to Windows, the internet mostly relies on others - none of the big companies (Meta, Cloudflare, Google, MS, Amazon, Netflix, Twitter...) use bind and neither do most hobbyists. It's just for the plethora of mid-sized companies with unmotivated admins.

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