A concern

Simon Waters Simon at wretched.demon.co.uk
Tue Sep 23 14:28:32 UTC 2003


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Paul Vixie wrote:
>
> no argument from me.  the people who needed urgent patches got them
and put
> them to good use.  the people who need less urgent change will get
that later.

My only comment would be that all I remember from Mark's announcements
were optional patches or release candidates, not releases.

In that sense "new versions of bind" haven't been "popping out like
crazy". Release candidates often come out at this frequently when the
nice folks at ISC are testing new features.

I stayed well clear of the patches because I had doubts about side effects.

Since the main problem the change caused here is due to the slow
responsiveness of sitefinder (at least at first), merely null routing
the /24 works fine. And people have a lot of experience with broken
routes and have a ready understanding of what happens when you reject
packets for a specific /24.

Now mistyped lookups fail quickly again, okay the error is a bit
daunting, but those who understand what happened understand immediately,
and 99% of the rest don't read, and/or understand, the error and just
check what they typed anyway.

Whatever the merits of the BIND patches, I have doubts on scalability,
if you have to list every domain that is, or isn't allowed to wildcard.

 Simon, who is nothing to do with the ISC.
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