Subject: Re: switching from bind8 to bind9
To: NetBSD Networking Technical Discussion List <tech-net@netbsd.org>
From: Greg A. Woods <woods@weird.com>
List: tech-net
Date: 11/17/2002 04:20:05
[ On Sunday, November 17, 2002 at 19:58:44 (+1100), Robert Elz wrote: ]
> Subject: Re: switching from bind8 to bind9 
>
>     Date:        Sat, 16 Nov 2002 01:55:13 -0500 (EST)
>     From:        woods@weird.com (Greg A. Woods)
>     Message-ID:  <20021116065513.06AE0A@proven.weird.com>
> 
>   | I consider the full "check-names" feature set quite critical for
>   | production use too.
> 
> I wouldn't consider running a bind8 without removing that apalling idea.
> Just disabling it isn't enough (someone might accidentally enable it).

Perhaps you haven't dealt closely enough with a big farm of really naive
M$-Windoze lusers to really fully appreciate the power of being able to
prevent them from ever even learning about broken DNS crap that'll only
cause them more problems if they do learn about it.

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