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Date: Thu, 25 Sep 1997 23:19:11 -0700 (PDT)
From: Tom <tom@uniserve.com>
To: Matt Behrens <matt@megaweapon.zigg.com>
cc: Mike Burgett <mburgett@awen.com>,
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Subject: Re: [Q] 2.2.5 bind release 
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On Thu, 25 Sep 1997, Matt Behrens wrote:

> On Thu, 25 Sep 1997, Mike Burgett wrote:
> 
> > Will 2.2.5 ship with the 4.9.6 or 8.1.1 BIND release?
> 
> I'm 99.9% sure it'll be 4.9.6.  8.1.1 has the strongest nameserver but its
> resolver library is sorely lacking and would probably cause many packages
> to break.

  Has FreeBSD ever use the BIND resolver library?  It seems to me that the
FreeBSD resolver is whole mix of different things, and is not 4.9.6
either.

  Besides the BIND resolver is mainly for systems that come with such a
useless/broken resolver that anything is better (ex SunOS 4.1).

> Matt Behrens | matt@zigg.com
> MST3K #85995 | http://www.zigg.com/
> 
> 

Tom