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Date:      Sat, 15 Nov 1997 10:10:02 -0800 (PST)
From:      Evan Champion <evanc@synapse.net>
To:        freebsd-bugs
Subject:   Re: bin/5052: upgrade BIND
Message-ID:  <199711151810.KAA22281@hub.freebsd.org>

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The following reply was made to PR bin/5052; it has been noted by GNATS.

From: Evan Champion <evanc@synapse.net>
To: Studded <Studded@dal.net>
Cc: "FreeBSD-gnats-submit@FreeBSD.ORG" <FreeBSD-gnats-submit@FreeBSD.ORG>
Subject: Re: bin/5052: upgrade BIND
Date: Sat, 15 Nov 1997 13:09:52 -0500 (EST)

 On Sat, 15 Nov 1997, Studded wrote:
 
 > 	I think that you have some basic misunderstandings of how BIND
 > 8.1.1 works.  Using tremendous oversimplification, the libraries that are
 > included with it aren't used by anything by default, since according to
 > the ISC they aren't quite ready for prime time.  What you want is a system
 > with the lib and include files from 4.9.6 (which we have) and the binaries
 > from 8.1.1, which will allow  you to do your dynamic updates and such.  
 
 I didn't realise that the 8.1.1 resolver was severely broken.  If that's
 the case, then that makes things much easier as there's nothing to merge
 in to libc.
 
 Evan
 



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