Date: Wed, 10 Jun 1998 20:51:38 +0200 From: Andreas Klemm <andreas@klemm.gtn.com> To: Cy Schubert - ITSD Open Systems Group <cschuber@uumail.gov.bc.ca> Cc: Matthew Cashdollar <mattc@rfcnet.com>, freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: bind 8 or 4 ? Message-ID: <19980610205138.A6701@klemm.gtn.com> In-Reply-To: <199806101520.IAA05119@cwsys.cwsent.com>; from Cy Schubert - ITSD Open Systems Group on Wed, Jun 10, 1998 at 08:20:17AM -0700 References: <19980607215916.A7507@klemm.gtn.com> <199806101520.IAA05119@cwsys.cwsent.com>
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On Wed, Jun 10, 1998 at 08:20:17AM -0700, Cy Schubert - ITSD Open Systems Group wrote: > > On Thu, Jun 04, 1998 at 10:37:24AM -0500, Matthew Cashdollar wrote: > > > > > > Is stable going to be moving to bind 8? I am currently using 4 and > > > would like to upgrade, but if it is going to be in the base system > > > I'd rather wait instead of installing the port. > > > > I think FreeBSD-STABLE will stay at bind4. > > > > But where is the problem to use the bind8 port ? > > I installed it on one of my home machines to "experience" BIND 8, as > I'm pondering doing the same at work. The upgrade was trivial. Ok, fine then for you. > If BIND 8 was used in -stable, this would cause much of the same grief > that we've just experienced with the latest round of changes that > affected config and the previous changes to compatibility slices, > because of the varying degrees of experience of people administering > FreeBSD sites. I think that this type of upgrade should be left until > 3.0 comes out. Ok, but what do you whish ? I understood your question as asking for bind8 in stable.... > Even then a sysinstall should ask a question like "do > you wish to upgrade to BIND 8?", > then install the port and run the Perl script to convert > any BIND 4 named.boot files to BIND 8 named.conf > files. If you use systinstall to install a system, then usually you have a *fresh* installation, why do you need a conversion script then ? > Then in 3.1 make BIND 8 the default. This should give everyone > plenty of warning (though some may still not heed the warning and > complain, but I guess that's life). I think bind8 should not wait too long, since everybody in the ISP business needs it because of security and advantages (to bind it on one ethernet interface). Many people told positive results, so why wait in -current ? And if it turns out to be stable, then merge it in... -- Andreas Klemm http://www.FreeBSD.ORG/~andreas What gives you 90% more speed, for example, in kernel compilation ? http://www.FreeBSD.ORG/~fsmp/SMP/akgraph-a/graph1.html "NT = Not Today" (Maggie Biggs) ``powered by FreeBSD SMP'' To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message
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