My home lab is small so I just run BIND ony server

Enlightened absolutism certainly has its appeal…

It’s an It’s Always Sunny reference!

If you stop the subscription, you don’t get upgrades. But you keep whatever the last version you had, it’s not locked out by a license check.

Check out this rather extreme example: REVS on the BBC micro https://youtu.be/p5s-zbXtDoo?si=5UWDROP2HtGQSiut