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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