From owner-freebsd-hackers Tue Nov 25 16:23:14 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) id QAA20987 for hackers-outgoing; Tue, 25 Nov 1997 16:23:14 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-hackers) Received: from whistle.com (s205m131.whistle.com [207.76.205.131]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) with ESMTP id QAA20974 for ; Tue, 25 Nov 1997 16:23:09 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from archie@whistle.com) Received: (from smap@localhost) by whistle.com (8.7.5/8.6.12) id QAA18659; Tue, 25 Nov 1997 16:22:22 -0800 (PST) Received: from bubba.whistle.com(207.76.205.7) by whistle.com via smap (V1.3) id sma018653; Tue Nov 25 16:22:08 1997 Received: (from archie@localhost) by bubba.whistle.com (8.8.5/8.6.12) id QAA03526; Tue, 25 Nov 1997 16:22:08 -0800 (PST) From: Archie Cobbs Message-Id: <199711260022.QAA03526@bubba.whistle.com> Subject: Re: BIND 8.1.1 In-Reply-To: from Gordon Henderson at "Nov 25, 97 08:50:06 pm" To: gordon@drogon.net (Gordon Henderson) Date: Tue, 25 Nov 1997 16:22:08 -0800 (PST) Cc: steve@visint.co.uk, sthaug@nethelp.no, hackers@freebsd.org X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4ME+ PL31 (25)] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk Gordon Henderson writes: > On Tue, 25 Nov 1997, Stephen Roome wrote: > > 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 ? > > Converting the zone files from 4.X format to 8.x format might not be a > trivial task for some people. True, there is a little perl script which > will do the bulk of the work, but for an ISP who acts as secondary for > 1000's of their customers zones, they also have to make sure that they can > get the information in the right format from their customer! I thought that 8.x config files were different, but the zone file format was the same.. am I mistaken? Thanks, -Archie ___________________________________________________________________________ Archie Cobbs * Whistle Communications, Inc. * http://www.whistle.com