Date: Sun, 3 Aug 1997 15:54:54 -0700 (MST) From: Terry Lambert <terry@lambert.org> To: lists@tar.com Cc: jkh@time.cdrom.com, freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Current is currently really a mess (was: Re: Tk/Tcl broken(?)) Message-ID: <199708032254.PAA02675@phaeton.artisoft.com> In-Reply-To: <199708032141.QAA19564@ns.tar.com> from "Richard Seaman, Jr." at Aug 3, 97 04:41:50 pm
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> 1) Some outside applications that were integrated into the main > tree, eg. bind, were way out of date in 2.2. (Granted, shortly after > I switched to current, bind 4.9.6 was merged into 2.2 -- though > I think latest "official" 2.2-release is still at an ancient level). > At various points, I've had similar issues with sendmail. There is still the > per4 vs perl5 issue, though that exists in -current too. On the specific issue of the most recent "bind", I have a problem. Someone has stated that their new "bind" is complaining about my use of an alias record as the name of my DNS server. This is a bogus thing for it to do, since it is imperitive that you be able to use a DNS rotor for DNS services, if you have equivalent servers for reasons of fault tolerance. So I could live without the latest "bind" being in wide use until that is corrected so that I can once again have my DNS server have as high an availability as many WWW servers... I happen to think DNS is a tad more important. 8-|. In any case, it is a mistake to always grab the most recent version of everything, and then try and jam it into a box with "stable" written on the outside. New versions of things (bind, in this case) are frequently *not* stable, and should not be represented as such. Terry Lambert terry@lambert.org --- Any opinions in this posting are my own and not those of my present or previous employers.
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