Date: Sat, 19 Jul 1997 11:50:47 +0100 From: Ian Vaudrey <ivaudrey@test.nemko.ltd.uk> To: Dan Busarow <dan@dpcsys.com> Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: upgrading to a safe BIND? Message-ID: <33D09C07.3F2C4337@test.nemko.ltd.uk> References: <Pine.UW2.3.95.970718165829.569G-100000@cedb>
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I hate to disagree, but I think bind-8 should be introduced into the 2.2-RELENG branch as soon as possible, at least as an install-time option. The reason? The following, found at http://www.isc.org/bind.html: "In May of 1997, the first production version of BIND-8 was released. We have deprecated BIND-4 other than for security related patches. No new features or portability changes will be added to BIND-4. You should be using BIND-8." That last sentence seems pretty unequivocal. - Ian Dan Busarow wrote: > > On Fri, 18 Jul 1997, Brandon Gillespie wrote: > > Why don't we ship FreeBSD with bind-8? From what I've read, it > seems like > > the better of the two.. > > The new named.conf syntax. > > You could ask people at install time if they want their named.boot > converted to named.conf and that would work for most people. > > But a lot of us have scripts that update that file and they need > to be re-written to handle the new format. > > I think we need to wait until 8.x has been in circulation for a > while before breaking several years worth of tools. I'd suggest > 3.0 as a target for the new version. By the time that is released > I would guess that most everyone who has automated DNS tools > will have converted on their own. > > Dan >
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