> With the (large) caveat that heterogenous networks are more subject to > human error in many cases.
Indeed. Everything comes with tradeoffs. More intimate familiarity with the product and a uniformity of deployment strategy has made it more practical here to stick with BIND; an update is a simple matter of a tarball and running a script that manages the dirty work. However, the original point was that switching from BIND to Unbound or other options is silly, because you're just trading one codebase for another, and they all have bugs. However, collectively, two different products cooperatively providing a service are likely to have a higher uptime in a well-designed environment. ... JG -- Joe Greco - sol.net Network Services - Milwaukee, WI - http://www.sol.net "We call it the 'one bite at the apple' rule. Give me one chance [and] then I won't contact you again." - Direct Marketing Ass'n position on e-mail spam(CNN) With 24 million small businesses in the US alone, that's way too many apples.