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0 pointsJCattheATM1mo ago0 comments

Pretty much any OS would be just as stable if it's just serving DNS/DHCP.

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snvzz1mo ago· 3 in thread

As someone who has run DNS and DHCP servers... unfortunately, no.

Shit happens, and choices still do matter. Even if it feels it should be simple, Linux has a way.

My experience has been that Openbsd is rock solid, so are its implementations of the relevant server daemons.

JCattheATMOP1mo ago

> Even if it feels it should be simple, Linux has a way.

As someone who has run DNS and DHCP servers for over 30 years and continues to do so, this just feels like confirmation bias based on your personal anecdotes. If there's an issue, it's likely due to messy over-complicated distros. Alpine is no less solid than OpenBSD.

klooney1mo ago

Nah, whenever I'm involved in a cloud cost audit, I routinely find boring unfashionable Ubuntu and RHEL servers someone forgot about with 5 year uptimes.

doublepg231mo ago

Going off of "data" from r/uptimeporn I can only conclude that Cisco makes the most stable software of all time.

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