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Date:      Fri, 17 Aug 2001 10:25:25 -0700
From:      William Carrel <william.carrel@infospace.com>
To:        "clemensF" <rabat@web.de>
Cc:        freebsd-stable@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Change to Bind 9
Message-ID:  <20010817172525.CCC2A37B405@hub.freebsd.org>
In-Reply-To: <20010817062846.M513@spotteswoode.yi.org>

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On Thursday, August 16, 2001, at 09:28 PM, clemensF wrote:

>> Mario Doria:
>
>> When is FBSD moving to use the BIND9 server instead of BIND8?
>
> you might consider moving to djbdns (http://cr.yp.to) instead.  it's 
> better.
> and in the ports.

When hell freezes over probably.

Neverminding the unreadibility of DJB's source code and his poor 
attitude toward others, djbdns requires a whole suite of other tools 
that DJB's written to operate properly.  Because normal services aren't 
quite good enough for him.

There is also a licensing issue.  DJB licenses his code in such a way 
that it is impossible to make changes to it and distribute it without 
violating his license.   Hence the myriad of .diff files for qmail to 
make it support new and interesting things.  People can't distribute 
packages of these things without incurring the wrath of Dan.

So no, it probably won't happen, and I'm sure quite a few FreeBSD users 
think that this is a Good Thing.  Remember... with djb's source the '.c' 
stands for configuration.

--
William Carrel

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