From owner-freebsd-hackers Tue Nov 25 04:47:11 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) id EAA09907 for hackers-outgoing; Tue, 25 Nov 1997 04:47:11 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-hackers) Received: from itesec.hsc.fr (root@itesec.hsc.fr [192.70.106.33]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) with ESMTP id EAA09890; Tue, 25 Nov 1997 04:46:52 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from pb@hsc.fr) Received: from mars.hsc.fr (pb@mars.hsc.fr [192.70.106.44]) by itesec.hsc.fr (8.8.8/8.8.5/itesec-1.10-nospam) with ESMTP id NAA03259; Tue, 25 Nov 1997 13:46:03 +0100 (MET) Received: (from pb@localhost) by mars.hsc.fr (8.8.5/8.8.5/pb-19970301) id NAA23355; Tue, 25 Nov 1997 13:46:02 +0100 (MET) Message-ID: <19971125134601.ZD51524@mars.hsc.fr> Date: Tue, 25 Nov 1997 13:46:01 +0100 From: Pierre.Beyssac@hsc.fr (Pierre Beyssac) To: steve@visint.co.uk (Stephen Roome) Cc: nate@mt.sri.com (Nate Williams), julian@whistle.com (Julian Elischer), hackers@FreeBSD.ORG, peter@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: BIND 8.1.1 References: <199711250130.SAA24765@mt.sri.com> X-Mailer: Mutt 0.59.1e Mime-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: ; from Stephen Roome on Nov 25, 1997 11:53:33 +0000 Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk According to Stephen Roome: > 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! You don't need 8.1.1 to get the latest security fixes: BIND 4.9.6 has the same fixes. I think that's the version included in FreeBSD 2.2.5. I believe the 4.9.x series are intended to receive all such fixes. Making BIND 8.1.1 the default under FreeBSD 2.2.x has the drawback that it would break existing 2.2.x installations relying on BIND 4.x configs. -- Pierre.Beyssac@hsc.fr