i hate to be that guy but it's not hard to learn. The tools are just from a different era where expectations where... different. However, even in my day BIND was avoided in favor of other servers like that one by the qmail guy.. can't remember his name.

this comment reminds me of one of my favorite Dilberts

old guy watching Dilbert at his computer: you kids today and your fancy graphical user interfaces. Back in my day all we had were ones and zeros ...and sometimes we didn't even have ones.

Dilbert: you had zeros? we had to use the letter 'o'