Date: Fri, 6 Jun 2003 09:09:55 -0400 From: "Michael W . Lucas" <mwlucas@blackhelicopters.org> To: freebsd-arch@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Way forward with BIND 8 Message-ID: <20030606090955.A85597@blackhelicopters.org> In-Reply-To: <20030605235254.W5414@znfgre.qbhto.arg>; from DougB@freebsd.org on Fri, Jun 06, 2003 at 12:09:04AM -0700 References: <20030605235254.W5414@znfgre.qbhto.arg>
next in thread | previous in thread | raw e-mail | index | archive | help
As a sysadmin who rolls out many FreeBSD nameservers: Please do as you suggest. On Fri, Jun 06, 2003 at 12:09:04AM -0700, Doug Barton wrote: > [ Please respect followups to -arch, thanks. ] > > As most of you are probably already aware, there have been two recent > releases of BIND 8. Version 8.3.5 is the "bugfix, and new minor features" > release on the 8.3.x branch that we've currently got in the tree already. > 8.4.0 is (more or less) the "all the bug fixes from 8.3.5, plus support > for IPv6 transport" version. > > Because there are over 14k lines of diff between the source for 8.3.5 and > 8.4.0, I'm hesitant to import the latter right away. Instead, as the > nominal BIND maintainer, I'm proposing the following plan: > > 1. Import 8.3.5 into HEAD, and upgrade the bind8 port. At the same time, > create a bind84 port for the 8.4.x branch. The port will include the > PORT_REPLACES_BASE functionality that we already have. > > 2. At some suitable point in the near future (definitely before the next > 4.x release), MFC 8.3.5. > > 3. At some suitable point in the future, probably after the BIND 8.4.1 > release, import 8.4.x into HEAD. > > I'm definitely in favor of improving support for IPv6, and BIND 8.4.x is > going to be a big step in this direction. I'm just not sure that we should > be adopting it in the base right away. My personal feeling is that having > it in the ports for the convenience of early adopters is sufficient. > However, my purpose in writing is to poll the community... I'm willing to > be persuaded if folks have strong feelings about adopting 8.4.x in the > base sooner rather than later, speak up now. > > FYI, for those wondering why I'm not considering BIND 9 for import, please > see http://people.freebsd.org/~dougb/whybind8.html > > Doug > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-arch@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-arch > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-arch-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" -- Michael Lucas mwlucas@FreeBSD.org, mwlucas@BlackHelicopters.org http://www.BlackHelicopters.org/~mwlucas/ Absolute OpenBSD: http://www.AbsoluteOpenBSD.com/
Want to link to this message? Use this URL: <https://mail-archive.FreeBSD.org/cgi/mid.cgi?20030606090955.A85597>