Date: Fri, 02 Feb 2007 17:04:30 -0500 From: Chris Marlatt <cmarlatt@rxsec.com> To: Doug Barton <dougb@FreeBSD.org> Cc: freebsd-security@freebsd.org, Mark Andrews <Mark_Andrews@isc.org> Subject: Re: What about BIND 9.3.4 in FreeBSD in base system ? Message-ID: <45C3B56E.3060706@rxsec.com> In-Reply-To: <45C2E612.5080002@FreeBSD.org> References: <200702012319.l11NJJ7r065204@drugs.dv.isc.org> <45C2E612.5080002@FreeBSD.org>
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Doug Barton wrote: > up to create a recursive resolver that only listens on 127.0.0.1. I > would expect that users who rely on BIND in a production setting to > either have upgraded to FreeBSD 6-stable, be using the port, or some > other custom configuration, or both. > > Doug > Again, why would you expect someone to have already upgraded when they have more than a year of advertised support left on a production release? I personally have very few 5.x systems left, primarily because I've been trying to heed the warnings, but seeing how 5 series is being fast tracked into retirement makes me extremely suspicious of what is to happen to 6 series when 7 is released and considered production. I'm sure many other people wonder the same thing and look at the lengthy support for 4 series which lasted 7,... 8 years and have come to expect something similar for future releases. Whereas I'm certainly not going to say progress is evil I will admit that the FreeBSD I see today is not the same one from yesteryear. Now, I can clearly understand and appreciate the burden that, as of yesterday, 3 active versions can impose on the development team but why pass part of that burden onto a user base that's done nothing but embraced the products produced by its efforts? Chris
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