BIND 8.2.7 master ixfr to 9.2.2 slave
Brad Knowles
brad at stop.mail-abuse.org
Fri May 6 11:53:48 UTC 2005
At 5:50 PM -0400 2005-05-05, Mike Mitchell wrote:
> According to Cricket Liu, IXFR has been supported in BIND 8
> since 8.2.2. See
> http://www.fruug.org/Archive/2000-05/bind_822.pdf
I am familiar with the features that were supposed to be present
in BIND-8 -- I was a technical reviewer of his book.
> if you don't believe me. If IXFR is so broken in BIND 8,
> why is the code still present in 8.4.6? Why isn't it
> at least ifdef'd out so it's not an option?
You'd have to ask the people at ISC. My belief is that the code
should be completely removed.
> Why is the answer "don't do that" instead of "hmm.. Lets
> see if we can fix the bug"?
Because fixing the bug took a complete rewrite of all of BIND to
get it to work correctly for BIND-9, and they've been trying to fix
it for *YEARS* under BIND-8, and still haven't gotten it to work
correctly.
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