From owner-freebsd-arch Mon Feb 19 8:28: 5 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-arch@freebsd.org Received: from homer.softweyr.com (bsdconspiracy.net [208.187.122.220]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 010BF37B503 for ; Mon, 19 Feb 2001 08:27:31 -0800 (PST) Received: from [127.0.0.1] (helo=softweyr.com ident=Fools trust ident!) by homer.softweyr.com with esmtp (Exim 3.16 #1) id 14UtBM-0000XB-00; Mon, 19 Feb 2001 09:29:01 -0700 Message-ID: <3A9149CC.7A1FADB8@softweyr.com> Date: Mon, 19 Feb 2001 09:29:00 -0700 From: Wes Peters Organization: Softweyr LLC X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.75 [en] (X11; U; Linux 2.2.12 i386) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Jos Backus Cc: arch@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: DJBDNS vs. BIND References: <200102190547.WAA12829@usr05.primenet.com> <3A90CA94.D7CBCB65@softweyr.com> <20010218233916.J28286@lizzy.bugworks.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-arch@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Jos Backus wrote: > > [This is rapidly turning into a bikeshed...] > > On Mon, Feb 19, 2001 at 12:25:50AM -0700, Wes Peters wrote: > > Some of the assumptions behind the operation of djbdns may not hold true > > for your installation. > > Some of those behind BIND's operation may not either. > > BIND's instability and problems are costing people and companies all over the > world real time and money. But with BIND, you the user can fix them. You can do that with DJBDNS, too, but you can't share your fixes with anyone else. > > That, along with the unmaintainability of the software fails to convince me > > it is a viable replacement for BIND. > > Again, what's there to maintain? Fix bugs/security problems? Dynamic DNS? DNSSEC? Cache control and forwarding? > 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? That's just the point, it ISN'T well-supported. DJB has his idea of how the world works, and if your idea doesn't match his, he doesn't integrate the code. I *have* worked with tinydns, modified it to perform some special tricks we needed for a partially connected server/gateway, and found that we could not distribute the modified versions, and DJB was not interested in our custom hacks. So we flushed tinydns and went with our own custom program AND bind. You seem to completely miss the fact that it's NOT DJB's code we really object to, but rather the license. -- "Where am I, and what am I doing in this handbasket?" Wes Peters Softweyr LLC wes@softweyr.com http://softweyr.com/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-arch" in the body of the message