From owner-freebsd-hackers Tue Nov 25 04:16:28 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) id EAA08603 for hackers-outgoing; Tue, 25 Nov 1997 04:16:28 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-hackers) Received: from verdi.nethelp.no (verdi.nethelp.no [195.1.171.130]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) with SMTP id EAA08580 for ; Tue, 25 Nov 1997 04:16:09 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from sthaug@nethelp.no) From: sthaug@nethelp.no Received: (qmail 13739 invoked by uid 1001); 25 Nov 1997 12:15:43 +0000 (GMT) To: steve@visint.co.uk Cc: hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: BIND 8.1.1 In-Reply-To: Your message of "Tue, 25 Nov 1997 11:53:33 +0000 (GMT)" References: X-Mailer: Mew version 1.05+ on Emacs 19.28.2 Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: Text/Plain; charset=us-ascii Date: Tue, 25 Nov 1997 13:15:42 +0100 Message-ID: <13737.880460142@verdi.nethelp.no> Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk > I was under the impression that there are some fairly important changes in > BIND 8.1.1, and especially after all the recent stuff with alternic and > nominet I guess there's people upgrading the default bind by hand now, > which is probably a pain! > > Couldn't 8.1.1 be made a package/port in the meantime, it would make life > a bit easier for all the isp folks who run FreeBSD. I don't see what the big deal is about BIND 8.1.1. If anybody wants to make it a port, by all means - but as of right now, all you need to do is "make clean; make depend; make". It compiles out of the box on 2.2 and newer. You only really need named (and named-xfer), the client-side functionality is basically the same in 4.9.6 and 8.1.1. > I reckon it'd be a fairly heavily used port if someone did it. Along with > sendmail BIND is also a fairly important consideration when deciding what > platform I'm going to be running assuming I'm a new isp. As far as I know there are no *security* reasons to switch to 8.1.1 - the security fixes that are in 8.1.1 are also in 4.9.6. If you switch to 8.1.1 you're most likely doing it in order to use some of the new functionality in 8.1.1 - but the people who need the new features are going to have to tweak the named.conf file anyway. > How many (any?) new users will chose Linux/BSDi/Solaris or whatever else > is now running 8.1.1 by default ? I know of *no* systems being delivered with bind 8.1.1 today - there are no systems running 8.1.1 "by default". On the other hand, I run 8.1.1 on several FreeBSD systems (and I also did the initial port, in the ISC sense, of BIND 8 to FreeBSD). 8.1.1 runs very well on FreeBSD - but I don't really see why people are so eager to make it the default yet. Steinar Haug, Nethelp consulting, sthaug@nethelp.no