From owner-freebsd-arch@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Jun 6 09:10:19 2003 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-arch@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E6F5337B401; Fri, 6 Jun 2003 09:10:19 -0700 (PDT) Received: from dragon.nuxi.com (trang.nuxi.com [66.93.134.19]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3BA9D43FA3; Fri, 6 Jun 2003 09:10:19 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from obrien@NUXI.com) Received: from dragon.nuxi.com (obrien@localhost [127.0.0.1]) by dragon.nuxi.com (8.12.9/8.12.9) with ESMTP id h56GA4Vm031082; Fri, 6 Jun 2003 09:10:04 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from obrien@dragon.nuxi.com) Received: (from obrien@localhost) by dragon.nuxi.com (8.12.9/8.12.9/Submit) id h56GA3uT031081; Fri, 6 Jun 2003 09:10:03 -0700 (PDT) Date: Fri, 6 Jun 2003 09:10:02 -0700 From: "David O'Brien" To: Bill Moran Message-ID: <20030606161002.GC82589@dragon.nuxi.com> References: <20030605235254.W5414@znfgre.qbhto.arg> <20030606024813.Y5414@znfgre.qbhto.arg> <20030606133644.GB49662@iconoplex.co.uk> <3EE0A4F6.6020201@potentialtech.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <3EE0A4F6.6020201@potentialtech.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4i X-Operating-System: FreeBSD 5.1-BETA Organization: The NUXI BSD Group X-Pgp-Rsa-Fingerprint: B7 4D 3E E9 11 39 5F A3 90 76 5D 69 58 D9 98 7A X-Pgp-Rsa-Keyid: 1024/34F9F9D5 cc: Doug Barton cc: freebsd-arch@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: Way forward with BIND 8 X-BeenThere: freebsd-arch@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list Reply-To: freebsd-arch@FreeBSD.org List-Id: Discussion related to FreeBSD architecture List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 06 Jun 2003 16:10:20 -0000 On Fri, Jun 06, 2003 at 10:28:06AM -0400, Bill Moran wrote: > The "at this time" part of his response says to me that the current "mixed" > status of 5 as -CURRENT as well as -RELEASE and the current effort to get > 5 -STABLE is what's preventing the import of BIND 9. Once 5 is branched > to a 6-CURRENT, I'm sure the possibility will open up to import BIND 9 > again. At that time ... The problem is that means that all throughout the 5-STABLE branch (I'd figure 2 years), we have BIND8 in the tree and FreeBSD will get less and less support from the vendor for security problems that creap up. It also means the normal world will wait another 2 years until the wind up with BIND9. If we're going to forever stick with anchient versions of stuff in src/contrib; we might as well kick BIND out and require the use of a port. I use FreeBSD because I want fresh userland software (when it is ready, and surely by X.2.2 it is) that is easily installable and upgradeable via 'make world'. Otherwise I'd use NetBSD. -- -- David (obrien@FreeBSD.org)