Date: Wed, 5 Jul 2000 08:17:23 +0200 From: Jeroen Ruigrok/Asmodai <asmodai@wxs.nl> To: Mark.Andrews@nominum.com Cc: "Morten A. Middelthon" <morten@freenix.no>, stable@freebsd.org Subject: Re: BIND 8.2.3-T5B in RELENG_4 source Message-ID: <20000705081722.R35215@daemon.ninth-circle.org> In-Reply-To: <200007041347.XAA20344@drugs.dv.isc.org>; from Mark.Andrews@nominum.com on Tue, Jul 04, 2000 at 11:47:17PM %2B1000 References: <Pine.BSF.4.21.0007041312020.9023-100000@atreides.freenix.no> <200007041347.XAA20344@drugs.dv.isc.org>
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-On [20000705 04:01], Mark.Andrews@nominum.com (Mark.Andrews@nominum.com) wrote: > >> From the sources I cvsup'ed last night I got BIND 8.2.3-T5B in >> src/contrib/bind, which is a beta version, and not recommended for >> production use by ISC. Is this a mistake or is there some special reason >> for it being there? > > If I was picking between BIND 8.2.2 and BIND 8.2.3-T5B to > run I would choose BIND 8.2.3-T5B (ignoring the Windows > port). At this stage there is only one pending bug fix > that is related to changes post BIND 8.2.2-P5 and that one > requires invalid answers to be sent from a master server. > All the remaining bug fixes address issues that are in BIND > 8.2.2-P5 and earlier. *nod* > That being said I prefer to not see beta release make it > into OS bases as those betas tend to hang around longer on > more machines as a result. I can agree with the sentiment Mark. However, I personally experienced quite a few of the bugs in 8.2.2-p5 a few times. And seeing that 8.2.3 solved these encouraged me to get it in -CURRENT. However since 8.2.3-t5b has been rockstable for me for quite some time now and fixes quite a few bugs which are present in 8.2.2-p5, this was a motivator for me to give Paul Saab a yes on the Merge From CURRENT. It is not my intention to start spreading early beta's with the system. I feel that the t5b release is sufficiently close to the actual release that it doesn't hurt the overal picture of DNS nameserving on a global scale. And do try to stay on top of things like this. ;) > As someone who's job is to support/develop BIND there were > some beta releases that I wish I could just erase from > every machine on the planet. I can imagine that. And apologies if you feel a bit unnerving about this. But fortunately our release model allows for easy replacement of older BIND versions. People tracking STABLE and CURRENT will automatically recompile BIND when they `make world'. And I'll make sure sufficient HEADS-UP will be posted on the mailinglists. -- Jeroen Ruigrok vd Werven/Asmodai asmodai@[wxs.nl|bart.nl|freebsd.org] Documentation nutter/C-rated Coder BSD: Technical excellence at its best The BSD Programmer's Documentation Project <http://home.wxs.nl/~asmodai>; Als men blijft geloven kan de zwaarste steen niet zinken... To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message
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