From owner-freebsd-chat Sat Feb 3 7:17: 5 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Received: from nef.ens.fr (nef.ens.fr [129.199.96.32]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 922F937B401 for ; Sat, 3 Feb 2001 07:16:46 -0800 (PST) Received: from corto.lpt.ens.fr (corto.lpt.ens.fr [129.199.122.2]) by nef.ens.fr (8.10.1/1.01.28121999) with ESMTP id f13FGd446241 ; Sat, 3 Feb 2001 16:16:39 +0100 (CET) Received: from (rsidd@localhost) by corto.lpt.ens.fr (8.9.3/jtpda-5.3.1) id QAA05603 ; Sat, 3 Feb 2001 16:16:57 +0100 (CET) Date: Sat, 3 Feb 2001 16:16:57 +0100 From: Rahul Siddharthan To: David Scheidt Cc: Terry Lambert , j mckitrick , freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: D J Bernstein (was Re: quote about open source) Message-ID: <20010203161657.P94275@lpt.ens.fr> Mail-Followup-To: David Scheidt , Terry Lambert , j mckitrick , freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG References: <20010203135902.M94275@lpt.ens.fr> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i In-Reply-To: ; from dscheidt@enteract.com on Sat, Feb 03, 2001 at 09:04:42AM -0600 X-Operating-System: FreeBSD 3.4-STABLE i386 Sender: owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org David Scheidt said on Feb 3, 2001 at 09:04:42: > On Sat, 3 Feb 2001, Rahul Siddharthan wrote: > > :some of the internet's busiest servers too. It hasn't been updated > :since 1997, but then it hasn't needed updating. > > That's less than accurate. Most large qmail installations have patched > djb's distribution. To remove bugs/security holes, or to add features? It seemed to me that the bare qmail package contains everything one needs for a typical email server. About the only thing I didn't like about it was that if it needs to deliver two copies of a message to the same host, for two different recipients, it makes two SMTP connections. But for the sort of set-up I was using it for, this didn't really matter. Maybe large providers like yahoo need more features, though. > :back in 1999 DJB actually wrote a bind replacement, and djbdns > :actually works beautifully, judging by many user reports. > > It's substantially less well featured than bind. Possible -- I haven't looked carefully at either. And DJB's licensing requirements mean it's harder for others to add those features -- but, as in the case of qmail, maybe it can be done via patches. R To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message