From owner-freebsd-stable Wed Dec 26 6:39:59 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from spock.webexc.com (zzz-216043142149.splitrock.net [216.43.142.149]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E216B37B41B for ; Wed, 26 Dec 2001 06:39:54 -0800 (PST) Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by spock.webexc.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id ABBD6B7 for ; Wed, 26 Dec 2001 09:41:30 -0500 (EST) Date: Wed, 26 Dec 2001 09:41:30 -0500 (EST) From: Matt Barton X-X-Sender: mbarton@spock.webexc.com To: stable@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Bind 9 and FreeBSD-Stable? In-Reply-To: <3C2959CE.30460.1BFF136@localhost> Message-ID: <20011226092242.Q27780-100000@spock.webexc.com> Organization: Webexcellence MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Wed, 26 Dec 2001, Philip J. Koenig wrote: > Are there any plans to switch to Bind 9 as the standard BIND release in > FreeBSD any time soon? > > I note that 4.4-Release is still using 8.2.4, and since I haven't > updated my sources for quite a while so I'm not sure if that has changed > any. > > But given that BIND started out as the "Berkeley Internet Name Daemon", > and that AFAIK much of its development still occurs on FreeBSD, doesn't > it make sense to move in that direction since v9 seems to be fairly > well-accepted these days? > > I've gotten stuck with multiple versions of BIND in FreeBSD before and > I'd much rather just use the stuff that's part of the base distribution > as it's more foolproof to update and keep track of. My gut tells me that it'll be a while before the default FreeBSD version of BIND is version 9. There are many programs out there, as I understand, that are incompatible with it, whereas they work fine with version 8. One such application I know, for fact, that doesn't work with BIND 9 is Lyris ListManagerSQL. We have a customer of our running it one Windows 2000 and Lyris specifically told them not to configure the software to query a BIND 9 server. Works perfectly find with BIND 8. I think this is more of a problem with Lyris than with BIND, but I am guessing that we will have to wait for software developers to fix their software before FreeBSD dares to switch BIND versions. I have had no problems using the BIND 9 port and have been able to run it without any conflicts. I simply run everything within /usr/local instead and disable the binaries for BIND 8. I also disable the making of BIND 8 in my /etc/make.conf file. -- Matt Barton Webexcellence matt@webexc.com Phone: 317.423.3548 x22 Fax: 317.423.8735 www.webexc.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message