From owner-freebsd-hackers Sat May 24 19:22:40 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) id TAA02359 for hackers-outgoing; Sat, 24 May 1997 19:22:40 -0700 (PDT) Received: from cedb.dpcsys.com (ns2.BEACH.net [209.25.4.3]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id TAA02354 for ; Sat, 24 May 1997 19:22:37 -0700 (PDT) Received: from localhost (dan@localhost) by cedb.dpcsys.com (8.8.5/8.8.2) with SMTP id CAA10820; Sun, 25 May 1997 02:22:29 GMT Date: Sat, 24 May 1997 19:22:28 -0700 (PDT) From: Dan Busarow To: sthaug@nethelp.no cc: freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: Named -- Specifying addresses to bind to. In-Reply-To: <21800.864423554@verdi.nethelp.no> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-hackers@FreeBSD.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk On Fri, 23 May 1997 sthaug@nethelp.no wrote: > If you want to put bind 8.1 in /usr/src, you should at least wait > until 8.1.1 (currently in alpha testing) is released. I'd hold out longer. Like til the new named.conf format is widely used. Basic chicken/egg problem here. > Also, the config file format for 8.1 is radically different. Yes, a > conversion script is supplied, but this may still be stumbling block > for some people. Exactly. It's going to break scripts for those who don't update DNS manually and will break DNS for *everyone* who upgrades an existing system. > Aside from that, I'm running 8.1.1 (alpha) on several machines, and > it seems to work just fine. Same here. I like it. But I sure wouldn't want it sprung on me by surprise. Dan -- Dan Busarow 714 443 4172 DPC Systems / Beach.Net dan@dpcsys.com Dana Point, California 83 09 EF 59 E0 11 89 B4 8D 09 DB FD E1 DD 0C 82