Hi Chris,

I've been looking at pkgsrc and the wealth of choices is
part of my quandary.  The case for avoid BIND 4 is clear
to me.  The decision to transition from 8 to 9 is still
a judgment call and I don't the needed experience as yet.

1. Why did you choose to use BIND 9 now rather than wait
for NetBSD to adopt it in the distribution?

2. Do you know why BIND 9 isn't part of the distribution?

3. Does the distribution's chosen version state an opinion
on the technical merits versus the latest BIND version?

Conrad

-----Original Message-----
From: Chris Pinnock [mailto:cjep@fawlty.net]
Sent: Friday, December 27, 2002 07:53
To: Conrad T. Pino
Cc: NetBSD Tech-Net (E-mail)
Subject: Re: BIND 9 Plans


On Fri, Dec 27, 2002 at 07:35:13AM -0800, Conrad T. Pino wrote:
> The current NetBSD 1.6 binary distribution contains
> BIND 8.3.3, the src distribution contains BIND 8.3.4

bind4, bind8, bind9 and development versions of bind9 are available in
pkgsrc.

> I'm interested in the best combination of stability
> and security available for BIND.  I'm using NetBSD
> to implement a combined router/firewall/DNS server.

These days I use bind 9 from pkgsrc.

best wishes,
Chris