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To: "Gary Palmer" <gpalmer@freebsd.org>
Subject: Re: Version of BIND in -stable 
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Date: Sat, 25 May 1996 18:01:58 -0500
From: Randy Terbush <randy@zyzzyva.com>
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> Randy Terbush wrote in message ID
> <199605251924.OAA08328@sierra.zyzzyva.com>:
> > Has anyone considered upgrading sources for BIND in -stable?
> > Last I looked it was a fairly old (and buggy) version.
> 
> Dunno. I thought it had come across? Oops. I was wrong. Ok. I wouldn't
> have any objections.
> 
> > newsyslog
> 
> What newsyslog?

I thought I had grabbed source for /usr/sbin/newsyslog from -current
Perhaps I drug it over from NetBSD. Something I had gotten used to
having and miss in -stable.

> > compat code
> 
> Compat code? You mean the linux emu? If so, then no. The changes are
> too far reaching in the kernel and make the change quite risky.

Understandable. One of those things making me want to jump the fence
for -current.

> > devfs
> 
> Devfs isn't anywhere close to being ready for the big time, and it
> requires umpteen changes throughout the kernel, some of which don't
> work as they should. So: NO.

Again, I understand. Wish in one hand....