From owner-freebsd-arch Mon Feb 19 0:26:44 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-arch@freebsd.org Received: from fw.wintelcom.net (ns1.wintelcom.net [209.1.153.20]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8497637B401; Mon, 19 Feb 2001 00:26:34 -0800 (PST) Received: (from bright@localhost) by fw.wintelcom.net (8.10.0/8.10.0) id f1J8QYq03413; Mon, 19 Feb 2001 00:26:34 -0800 (PST) Date: Mon, 19 Feb 2001 00:26:34 -0800 From: Alfred Perlstein To: freebsd-arch@FreeBSD.ORG Cc: Jos Backus , arch@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: DJBDNS vs. BIND Message-ID: <20010219002634.J6641@fw.wintelcom.net> References: <200102190547.WAA12829@usr05.primenet.com> <3A90CA94.D7CBCB65@softweyr.com> <20010218233916.J28286@lizzy.bugworks.com> <20010218235023.A95040@dragon.nuxi.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i In-Reply-To: <20010218235023.A95040@dragon.nuxi.com>; from TrimYourCc@NUXI.com on Sun, Feb 18, 2001 at 11:50:24PM -0800 X-all-your-base: are belong to us. Sender: owner-freebsd-arch@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG * David O'Brien [010218 23:51] wrote: > On Sun, Feb 18, 2001 at 11:39:16PM -0800, Jos Backus wrote: > > > I can't help getting the impression that people don't care to give djbdns a > > proper look because of the way they perceive its author. Who cares what kind > > of personality the author has, as long as the code works and is > > well-supported? > > WE care if it has a license against the BSD philosophy. Period. There's that, but where's the years of auditing and real world use to back up the decision to include this code in our base system? Sure bind has had its problems, but all djbdns seems to have is obfucation and a small userbase as merits. -- -Alfred Perlstein - [bright@wintelcom.net|alfred@freebsd.org] "I have the heart of a child; I keep it in a jar on my desk." To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-arch" in the body of the message