On Wed, Dec 03, 2003 at 03:41:11PM -0500, Greg A. Woods wrote:
> [ On Tuesday, December 2, 2003 at 16:55:21 (-0800), Chuck Yerkes wrote: ]
> > Subject: Re: CVS commit: src/dist/bind
> >
> > Which leaves me with "why is BIND 8 still part of NetBSD?"
> > 
> > Invalid reasons include "it's proven"  (yes, and orphaned now too)
> > It's not longer supported; it's missing several Good Things.
> 
> Well, BIND-9 is also still missing critical (to me) things.
> 
> The most notable is the logging and tracking of the source of all cached
> values.  I rely on having access to this information almost daily in the
> BIND-8 caching resolvers I manage -- it makes debugging much _much_ easier.
> 
> (and there is an arguably much better authoritative-only server
> available to use in place of the monster BIND-9 has become:  net/nsd)
> 
> As for why I asked in the first place:  named is "just an application",
> and the 8.4.3 version is just as well proven in NetBSD environments,
> including netbsd-1-6, as 8.3.7 is.  There's no valid technical reason I
> can see, and none has been offered to date, for not pulling 8.4.3 up
> into netbsd-1-6, even this close to the end of the release cycle.  If

The changes between 8.3.5 and 8.3.7 are really small, and so much easier
to audit.

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