From owner-freebsd-current Sun Aug 3 15:56:41 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) id PAA24234 for current-outgoing; Sun, 3 Aug 1997 15:56:41 -0700 (PDT) Received: from phaeton.artisoft.com (phaeton.Artisoft.COM [198.17.250.50]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with SMTP id PAA24229 for ; Sun, 3 Aug 1997 15:56:38 -0700 (PDT) Received: (from terry@localhost) by phaeton.artisoft.com (8.6.11/8.6.9) id PAA02675; Sun, 3 Aug 1997 15:54:54 -0700 From: Terry Lambert Message-Id: <199708032254.PAA02675@phaeton.artisoft.com> Subject: Re: Current is currently really a mess (was: Re: Tk/Tcl broken(?)) To: lists@tar.com Date: Sun, 3 Aug 1997 15:54:54 -0700 (MST) Cc: jkh@time.cdrom.com, freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG In-Reply-To: <199708032141.QAA19564@ns.tar.com> from "Richard Seaman, Jr." at Aug 3, 97 04:41:50 pm X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL24] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk > 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 bind, were way out of date in 2.2.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.