Date: Sat, 7 Jun 2003 23:31:11 +0300 From: Valentin Nechayev <netch@lucky.net> To: Doug Barton <DougB@freebsd.org> Cc: freebsd-arch@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Way forward with BIND 8 Message-ID: <20030607203111.GN83663@lucky.net> In-Reply-To: <20030606024813.Y5414@znfgre.qbhto.arg> References: <20030605235254.W5414@znfgre.qbhto.arg> <a06001214bb060a199205@[10.0.1.2]> <20030606024813.Y5414@znfgre.qbhto.arg>
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Fri, Jun 06, 2003 at 03:01:02, DougB wrote about "Re: Way forward with BIND 8": > >> FYI, for those wondering why I'm not considering BIND 9 for import, please > >> see http://people.freebsd.org/~dougb/whybind8.html Among other things: standard resolver is waaay(tm) old. Even keeping with BIND8, it is old. At least, it isn't thread-safe; this is too ugly for 5.*. Unlike IRS code (gethostby*()), its upgrading to thread safe version is conceptually easy. I've created and successfully tested patch to upgrade it to 8.3.4 version, losing only res_*update() and RES_INSECURE*; it was very simple, and a person more informed in its specifics including KAME hacks can do it better. (ftp://segfault.kiev.ua/pub/freebsd/newresolv for someone wanting to see it. I should repeast that this attempt may be too lame and forgetting some principal moments, but it was successfully tested on real load for a long time.) -netch-
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