From owner-freebsd-hackers Tue Nov 25 04:56:36 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) id EAA10372 for hackers-outgoing; Tue, 25 Nov 1997 04:56:36 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-hackers) Received: from wakko.visint.co.uk (wakko.visint.co.uk [194.207.134.12]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) with ESMTP id EAA10364 for ; Tue, 25 Nov 1997 04:56:32 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from steve@visint.co.uk) Received: from dylan.visint.co.uk (dylan.visint.co.uk [194.207.134.180]) by wakko.visint.co.uk (8.8.5/8.7.3) with SMTP id MAA15302; Tue, 25 Nov 1997 12:56:05 GMT Date: Tue, 25 Nov 1997 12:56:04 +0000 (GMT) From: Stephen Roome To: sthaug@nethelp.no cc: hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: BIND 8.1.1 In-Reply-To: <13737.880460142@verdi.nethelp.no> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk On Tue, 25 Nov 1997 sthaug@nethelp.no wrote: > 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. If there's no secuity implications then there's no rush, true, and if no-one else is sending it out by default again, there's no rush. But when will it be the default? If there's no bugs (well, no serious ones that have been found) then why delay ? I suppose when it's fully tested, but this is a lot of testing, certainly more than some of the things that might have gone into 2.2.5-RELEASE, like the appletalk stack for example, although that might have been tested a lot, I'm assuming that's not the case. [Not to slight 2.2.5, which IMHO in all other respects is good.] Steve. Steve Roome - Vision Interactive Ltd. Tel:+44(0)117 9730597 Home:+44(0)976 241342 WWW: http://dylan.visint.co.uk/