> Why would I prefer this over NSD? Don't drop NSD, it's a cool piece of software and folks at NLnetLabs are our friends :). My advice would be to run at leas

> Why would I prefer this over NSD? Don't drop NSD, it's a cool piece of software and folks at NLnetLabs are our friends :). My advice would be to run at least two different pieces of software in any deployment since any software can have bugs. See this very nice presentation by Anand Buddhdev from RIPE NCC about their DNS infrastructure: https://ripe68.ripe.net/presentations/284-AnandBuddhdev_RIPE68_DNS_Update.pdf https://ripe68.ripe.net/presentations/284-AnandBuddhdev_RIPE... > Are ragel parsers really 100x faster than bison parsers? I wouldn't say that generally, but it's true for our zonefile parser. (Or maybe the bison parser we had sucked that hard :)). > Off hand, that seems atypical and more likely the result of other changes. Probably, but those changes came hand in hand with the change of the parser generator.