Date: Wed, 11 Mar 1998 14:41:26 -0800 From: Nicole Harrington <nicole@mediacity.com> To: Doug White <dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu>, Studded <Studded@dal.net> Cc: Nicole Harrington <nicole@mediacity.com>, The experts <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: 2.2.6-BETA OOP-ACK-BLEH sendmail 8.8.8 won't compile Message-ID: <Chameleon.889656161.nmh@geekgirl> References: <Pine.BSF.3.96.980311113316.15994G-100000@gdi.uoregon.edu> <350704E9.E2ACBD66@dal.net>
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> Doug White wrote:
> >
> > On Tue, 10 Mar 1998, Nicole Harrington wrote:
>
> > > Thankfully it was on my own server. I have recompiled most everything I
> > > needed to after doing make world and building a new kernel. (Like named
> > > 8.8.1 - Which *should* IMHO be in 2.2.6)
> >
> > Principle of least suprise says that named 8.x won't be in 2.2.x due to
> > the config file renovation. Good candidate for 3.x though.
>
> Not just POLA, but the fact that the resolver and other
> libraries/headers/etc. in BIND 8.1.1 are not yet ready for prime time.
> Word is that 8.1.2 will have some or all of this stuff fixed, but the CW
> for BIND is still build 4.9.6 to get the headers and libs (which we do)
> and if you are running a publicly accessible nameserver build 8.1.1 to
> get the better binaries and named.conf options. There's no way that BIND
> 8.x should ever go into FreeBSD 2.anything, except as a port, which we
> already have. :) OTOH, once it's ready for prime time BIND 8 should
> definitely be part of -Current, hopefully before 3.0-Release. That will
> be good timing for the change.
>
> Doug
>
Hmm
I know that we have been using 8.1.1 for awhile now for primary and secondary
NS for a very large number of domains and it does very well. It does have a
small learning curve though.
Nicole
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