From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Mar 11 21:17:37 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id VAA02045 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Wed, 11 Mar 1998 21:17:37 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from gdi.uoregon.edu (gdi.uoregon.edu [128.223.170.30]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id VAA01975 for ; Wed, 11 Mar 1998 21:17:26 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from dwhite@gdi.uoregon.edu) Received: from localhost (dwhite@localhost) by gdi.uoregon.edu (8.8.7/8.8.8) with SMTP id VAA16584; Wed, 11 Mar 1998 21:17:25 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from dwhite@gdi.uoregon.edu) Date: Wed, 11 Mar 1998 21:17:24 -0800 (PST) From: Doug White Reply-To: Doug White To: Nicole Harrington cc: Studded , The experts Subject: Re: 2.2.6-BETA OOP-ACK-BLEH sendmail 8.8.8 won't compile In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Wed, 11 Mar 1998, Nicole Harrington wrote: > > Not just POLA, but the fact that the resolver and other > > libraries/headers/etc. in BIND 8.1.1 are not yet ready for prime time. > > Word is that 8.1.2 will have some or all of this stuff fixed, but the CW > > for BIND is still build 4.9.6 to get the headers and libs (which we do) > > and if you are running a publicly accessible nameserver build 8.1.1 to > > get the better binaries and named.conf options. There's no way that BIND > > 8.x should ever go into FreeBSD 2.anything, except as a port, which we > > already have. :) OTOH, once it's ready for prime time BIND 8 should > > definitely be part of -Current, hopefully before 3.0-Release. That will > > be good timing for the change. > > > > Doug > > > > Hmm > I know that we have been using 8.1.1 for awhile now for primary and secondary > NS for a very large number of domains and it does very well. It does have a > small learning curve though. The fact that the config file needs whacking is the troublesome part. Springing a new version of software that requires **major** changes to work in a point release isn't good release engineering. There is always the port. Doug White | University of Oregon Internet: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu | Residence Networking Assistant http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite | Computer Science Major To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message