From owner-freebsd-hackers Wed Nov 26 11:52:02 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) id LAA14111 for hackers-outgoing; Wed, 26 Nov 1997 11:52:02 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-hackers) Received: from smtp01.primenet.com (smtp01.primenet.com [206.165.6.131]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) with ESMTP id LAA14061; Wed, 26 Nov 1997 11:51:54 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from tlambert@usr08.primenet.com) Received: (from daemon@localhost) by smtp01.primenet.com (8.8.8/8.8.8) id GAA00533; Wed, 26 Nov 1997 06:06:55 -0700 (MST) Received: from usr08.primenet.com(206.165.6.208) via SMTP by smtp01.primenet.com, id smtpd000481; Wed Nov 26 06:06:43 1997 Received: (from tlambert@localhost) by usr08.primenet.com (8.8.5/8.8.5) id MAA13523; Wed, 26 Nov 1997 12:49:45 -0700 (MST) From: Terry Lambert Message-Id: <199711261949.MAA13523@usr08.primenet.com> Subject: Re: BIND 8.1.1 To: shimon@simon-shapiro.org Date: Wed, 26 Nov 1997 19:49:44 +0000 (GMT) Cc: tlambert@primenet.com, peter@freebsd.org, hackers@freebsd.org, julian@whistle.com, steve@visint.co.uk, nate@mt.sri.com In-Reply-To: from "Simon Shapiro" at Nov 25, 97 09:09:17 pm X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL23] Content-Type: text Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk > > The big pain on an 8.x upgrade is the config file format has > changed > > (there's good reasons for this, though it remains annoying no matter > > how good the reasons). > > You are not forgetting the integration of the new resolver library into > libc, new header files, etc. Right? Users only have to worry about the config files, since that's the only "upgrade visible" piece. The work of integrating it into FreeBSD has to happen sooner or later, since 4.9.6 is the last release on that tree, and the cost is going to remain constant. Terry Lambert terry@lambert.org --- Any opinions in this posting are my own and not those of my present or previous employers.