Date: Tue, 25 Nov 1997 20:50:06 +0000 (GMT) From: Gordon Henderson <gordon@drogon.net> To: Stephen Roome <steve@visint.co.uk> Cc: sthaug@nethelp.no, hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: BIND 8.1.1 Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.3.95.971125204643.13531A-100000@unicorn> In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.3.95.971125124256.19849A-100000@dylan.visint.co.uk>
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On Tue, 25 Nov 1997, Stephen Roome wrote: > On Tue, 25 Nov 1997 sthaug@nethelp.no wrote: > > As far as I know there are no *security* reasons to switch to 8.1.1 - > > the security fixes that are in 8.1.1 are also in 4.9.6. If you switch > > to 8.1.1 you're most likely doing it in order to use some of the new > > functionality in 8.1.1 - but the people who need the new features are > > going to have to tweak the named.conf file anyway. > > If there's no secuity implications then there's no rush, true, and if > no-one else is sending it out by default again, there's no rush. > > But when will it be the default? If there's no bugs (well, no serious ones > that have been found) then why delay ? Converting the zone files from 4.X format to 8.x format might not be a trivial task for some people. True, there is a little perl script which will do the bulk of the work, but for an ISP who acts as secondary for 1000's of their customers zones, they also have to make sure that they can get the information in the right format from their customer! 8.1.1 compiles and installs out of the box on all FreeBSD's I've tried it on and it seems to work well, so I'm sure it will happen, but not right away... Gordon
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