Date: Wed, 6 Feb 2002 17:30:52 +0200 (SAT) From: John Hay <jhay@icomtek.csir.co.za> To: nectar@freebsd.org (Jacques A. Vidrine) Cc: freebsd-arch@freebsd.org Subject: Re: cvs commit: src/contrib/bind FREEBSD-Xlist Message-ID: <200202061530.g16FUq970877@zibbi.icomtek.csir.co.za> In-Reply-To: <20020206152311.GB66083@madman.nectar.cc> from "Jacques A. Vidrine" at "Feb 6, 2002 09:23:11 am"
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> On Wed, Feb 06, 2002 at 05:14:03PM +0200, John Hay wrote: > > What about going to v9.x? At least for -current, although looking at > > the security history of 8.x, I think we should really think about > > doing it even for -stable. Leave the bind8 port for those guys that > > need some of its features. > > That's something that is worthy of being discussed. Personally, I use > BIND 9. But I know many people still run BIND 8 --- including heavy > hitters like the root name servers operators. > > FWIW, I stepped in to update BIND to 8.3.1-REL as Security Officer, > because of recent security bug fixes. In other words, I did it to fix > something broken. Moving to BIND 9 is a feature enhancement that will > require work on the part of our users. I'd like to see some > discussion about the tradeoffs before we decide to make such a move. Well like I tried to imply in my previous email, you can look at "upgrading to v9.x" as a feature enhancement or measured against the history of v8 as preventative security fixes. :-) I say let those who want to live on the security edge do so from ports/packages. :-) Just MHO. John -- John Hay -- John.Hay@icomtek.csir.co.za / jhay@FreeBSD.org To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-arch" in the body of the message
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