Date: Wed, 11 Mar 1998 21:17:24 -0800 (PST) From: Doug White <dwhite@gdi.uoregon.edu> To: Nicole Harrington <nicole@mediacity.com> Cc: Studded <Studded@dal.net>, The experts <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: 2.2.6-BETA OOP-ACK-BLEH sendmail 8.8.8 won't compile Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.3.96.980311211622.16485S-100000@gdi.uoregon.edu> In-Reply-To: <Chameleon.889656161.nmh@geekgirl>
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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
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