From owner-freebsd-hackers Fri May 23 14:59:33 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) id OAA19058 for hackers-outgoing; Fri, 23 May 1997 14:59:33 -0700 (PDT) Received: from verdi.nethelp.no (verdi.nethelp.no [195.1.171.130]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with SMTP id OAA19053 for ; Fri, 23 May 1997 14:59:25 -0700 (PDT) From: sthaug@nethelp.no Received: (qmail 21924 invoked by uid 1001); 23 May 1997 21:59:22 +0000 (GMT) To: black@zen.cypher.net Cc: roberto@keltia.freenix.fr, freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Named -- Specifying addresses to bind to. In-Reply-To: Your message of "Fri, 23 May 1997 17:04:32 -0400 (EDT)" References: X-Mailer: Mew version 1.05+ on Emacs 19.28.2 Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: Text/Plain; charset=us-ascii Date: Fri, 23 May 1997 23:59:21 +0200 Message-ID: <21922.864424761@verdi.nethelp.no> Sender: owner-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk > ugh, this is like pulling teeth. the issue is not EXACTLY which version > of bind is included in the release, but rather only that it is RECENT > because the ancient one currently in the distribution is inadequate. The BIND version in FreeBSD-current is based on 4.9.5-P1, which was released 18 December 1996. I'd hardly call that ancient. The BIND version in FreeBSD-2.2.2 is based on 4.9.4-P1, which was released 5 August 1996. Not as good, but not exactly ancient either. Yes, I agree that bind 8.1 has features that some people really need. But a lot of people also need *stability*, and bind 8.1 is just new enough (released 6 May 1997) that it may not be wise to import it into the main tree yet. A better choice for most people would probably be 4.9.5-P2, which is just around the corner. Steinar Haug, Nethelp consulting, sthaug@nethelp.no