2.4 kernel and bind 8.2.3 - REL.

paul j paul at netpacq.com
Mon Jun 25 03:22:15 UTC 2001


The point here is some people have half a brain on this list and do not 
follow blindly where they are PUSHED..
However.... it looks like you do.


At 08:13 PM 6/24/2001, Mark.Andrews at nominum.com wrote:

> >
> > Total of 5,000 primary domains, and one server backing all 5,000 
> domains up..
> >
> > Total of 3 name servers, that I was hopping to speed-up with the new 
> kernel..
> > .
> > I am still reading on bind 9.x.x.... whay will they not leave the format
> > ALONE!!!?....
> > Pain in my ass to have to rebuild all my domains, every time we upgrade 
> our
> > bind version.... so much work I don't like doing it very much..
>
>         I'm sure that there are BIND 9 servers running with EXACTLY
>         the same zone files that they were running on BIND 4 servers
>         10 years ago.  I'm sure that there are many, many more that
>         made only one change to get the zone file to work on BIND
>         9, i.e. adding a $TTL directive.
>
>         If you have had to do more than adding a $TTL directive,
>         then your zone files were in error in the first place.  The
>         fact that named read them didn't make them correct.
>
> >
> > If they are going to add features, why must they make such RADICAL
> > changes...Ooh, that's right no one can agree on a standard in *nix, and if
> > someone try's they get shoot down with "You are taking away our freedom to
> > code how we want"....
>
>         Well if you have been forced to make changes to zone files
>         (including ensuring that a TTL was defined) you havn't
>         followed the standard.  Named's changes have been in terms
>         of stricter standards comformance.  If you were strictly
>         following the standard in the first place you wouldn't
>         see effects of the changes.
>
> >
> > Can't we all just get ALONG??
> >
>
>         Mark
>--
>Mark Andrews, Nominum Inc.
>1 Seymour St., Dundas Valley, NSW 2117, Australia
>PHONE: +61 2 9871 4742                 INTERNET: Mark.Andrews at nominum.com

Best regards,
Paul Jacobs /Senior Network Eng.
Netpacq Systems Inc.
http://www.netpacq.com
mailto:paul at netpacq.com
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