From owner-freebsd-bugs Wed Mar 22 11:19:42 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-bugs@freebsd.org Received: from dt051n0b.san.rr.com (dt051n0b.san.rr.com [204.210.32.11]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8B2BB37BB03 for ; Wed, 22 Mar 2000 11:19:39 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from Doug@gorean.org) Received: from slave (doug@slave [10.0.0.1]) by dt051n0b.san.rr.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id LAA80516; Wed, 22 Mar 2000 11:19:29 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from Doug@gorean.org) Date: Wed, 22 Mar 2000 11:19:29 -0800 (PST) From: Doug Barton X-Sender: doug@dt051n0b.san.rr.com To: Sheldon Hearn Cc: freebsd-bugs@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: bin/17532: "host" only prints A records by default In-Reply-To: <200003221600.IAA34098@freefall.freebsd.org> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-bugs@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org On Wed, 22 Mar 2000, Sheldon Hearn wrote: > The following reply was made to PR bin/17532; it has been noted by GNATS. > > From: Sheldon Hearn > To: Dan Nelson > Cc: FreeBSD-gnats-submit@FreeBSD.ORG > Subject: Re: bin/17532: "host" only prints A records by default > Date: Wed, 22 Mar 2000 17:56:09 +0200 > > On Wed, 22 Mar 2000 09:51:08 CST, Dan Nelson wrote: > > > But I'd rather see the old behaviour :) It annoys me on other > > platforms with Bind 8, but this one I can at least change. > > While you may find it annoying, I think it's better to keep our BIND as > consistent as possible with the distribution than it is to make its > behaviour less annoying. Better still would be to contact the BIND authors and see if the change was intentional, and lobby to change it back in either case. We're not operating in a vacuum here people. :) With BIND 8.2.3 set to go gold "soon" time is of the essence here. Doug -- "While the future's there for anyone to change, still you know it seems, it would be easier sometimes to change the past" - Jackson Browne, "Fountain of Sorrow" To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-bugs" in the body of the message