DNS SURVEY: JULY 2006

This is a sub-page of the July 2006 report that includes a table of all nameserver software versions that we found.

BIND 9.2	191,509	57.66%
unknown	122,188	-
Embedded Linux*	51,720	15.57%
BIND 8.3	31,780	9.57%
PowerDNS	14,448	4.35%
Microsoft Windows DNS 2000	11,548	3.48%
BIND 8.2	7,190	2.16%
BIND 9.1	7,067	2.13%
BIND 8.1	4,863	1.46%
Microsoft Windows DNS 2003	3,246	0.98%
BIND 9.3	2,951	0.89%
BIND 8.4	1,714	0.52%
BIND 4.9	1,336	0.40%
Microsoft Windows DNS NT4	868	0.26%
Viking DNS module	462	0.14%
dnsmasq-2	424	0.13%
Cisco CNR	254	0.08%
BIND 9.0	193	0.06%
Meta IP/DNS	126	0.04%
pliant DNS Server	54	0.02%
Microsoft DNS Server SP 6.0	36	0.01%
QDDNS 2.1	36	0.01%
rbldnsd	34	0.01%
dnsmasq-1	33	0.01%
Nominum ANS	31	0.01%
BIND 4.8	30	0.01%
UltraDNS v2.7.0.2 -- 2.7.3	22	0.01%
incognito DNS commander v2.3.1.1 -- 4.0.5.1	20	0.01%
BIND 4.0	17	0.01%
Nildram DNSv0.9	13	0.00%
Microsoft DNS serverz 9.0 .NET	12	0.00%
NSD 2.2.1	12	0.00%
AOL2	10	0.00%
QDDNS 3.1	8	0.00%
Microsoft ?	6	0.00%
NSD 2.3.4	6	0.00%
BIND 4.2	3	0.00%
NSD 2.3.1	3	0.00%
NSD 2.3.3	3	0.00%
NSD 2.3.0	3	0.00%
NSD 2.3.5	3	0.00%
QuickDNS 4.5.1	3	0.00%
Microsoft DNS Server ver. 0.3alpha	2	0.00%
BIND 9.4	2	0.00%
NSD 2.1.5	2	0.00%
Fasthosts Envisage DNS server	2	0.00%
BIND 1.0	2	0.00%
Microsoft-Windows 3.11 for Workgroups	1	0.00%
BIND 4.3	1	0.00%
BIND 9.9	1	0.00%
Other	0	0.00%

Note that the above percentages include only those nameservers for which we could determine a version. In fact we could not determine the version for alomst 33% of the nameservers that we found.

^*fpdns seems to have trouble telling the difference between certain embedded Linux devices and Nominum CNS.