In this chapter, we will look at various nameserver daemons that are available to run on your authoritative nameservers. In the Chapter 12, Nameserver Considerations, we look at using more than one type of nameserver daemon and whether you would want to.
It never hurts to be familiar with more than one type of nameserver, and depending on your use case, you may find that one of the alternatives suits your organization better than the common default of a BIND server.
Further, you may be in a position where you are managing multiple zones and some may be mirroring from external masters while others may be allowing third-party mirrors or both. In these cases, it is not uncommon to be interfacing with nameservers different than your own, so it's always good to understand how to integrate with them.
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