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From: Tom Samplonius <tom@sdf.com>
To: Michael Beckmann <beckmann@nacamar.de>
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Subject: Re: BIND 8.1
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On Wed, 11 Jun 1997, Michael Beckmann wrote:

> Greetings,
> 
> I wish to ask if anyone is working actively on porting BIND 8.1 to FreeBSD,
> or if anyone intends to do that in the near future. If yes, I would like to
> know who that is and around which time he/she intends to complete it.
> If noone is working on this, a colleague of mine is thinking about doing
> that job. He had already ported the most recent BIND 4.9.4 to FreeBSD 2.1.5
> last year, and we had been running his port on our main nameserver for
> about 8 months. If there is any interest on the FreeBSD side, we could do
> the BIND 8.1 port in a proper way so that it can be submitted to the
> FreeBSD source tree. Hints on how to do this correctly are appreciated.
> 
> Thanks,
> 
> Michael Beckmann
> 
> 
> 
> 

  Compiling BIND on FreeBSD is almost trivial.

  8.1 should be imported into current, but that isn't so trivial, but that
is primarily a cvs problem, not a porting problem.

Tom