New server build

Tony Earnshaw tonni at hetnet.nl
Thu Oct 4 19:14:33 UTC 2007


Chris Buxton skrev, on 04-10-2007 18:05:

[...]

>> In addition to what Jeremy suggests, I suggest using Adam Tkac's (of
>> this list) Bind 9.4-P1 rpms (http://people.redhat.com/atkac/bind/) in
>> place of CentOS's.
> 
> As Stephen Smoogen pointed out to me recently, you should be aware  
> that doing this puts the responsibility entirely on you to maintain  
> your BIND version. If you use the stock CentOS (actually Red Hat)  
> version of BIND, "yum update" will keep you up-to-date with the  
> latest bug fixes as implemented by Red Hat.
> 
> Note that I'm not advocating either path, just pointing out the issue.

Red Hat backports are all well and good, but the ultimate idiocy in RHEL 
"backporting" was the maintenance in RHEL3 and RHEL4 of OpenLDAP 
versions known to be suicidally buggy and guaranteed to ruin whatever OL 
installation one had. Taken up repeatedly to the extent of utter boredom 
on the OL list.

On some things (e.g. httpd) RH is really good at upgrading and 
maintaining a 99.9% OS. On others it is just plain mulish.

Between RHL4 and RHL5 Red Hat's OL update policy has changed completely. 
It now tries to keep up with OL versions, but the *quality* of what it 
delivers is still utterly abysmal. UTTERLY. To the extent that those who 
know OL well enough discard all offerings from RH and espouse those from 
a Mandriva Red Hat packager who, on his own, can outdo anything that the 
Red Hat packagers can. No one, but *no one*, on the OL list advocates 
Red Hat OL packages.

Adam Tkac is a sodding good, independent, Red Hat Bind packager. He 
keeps up with what ISC considers good, not what some imbecile Red Hat 
backporter considers what ISC should be doing.

I agree that keeping one's system up to date throws responsibility onto 
whatever sysadmin who's responsible for his/her site. But then, that's 
what a good sysadmin is supposed to do. I choose Red Hat in place of 
other vendors because I deem Red Hat more dependable and easier to run 
than theirs. But I'm no sycophant, rather an eclectic.

Best,

--Tonni

-- 
Tony Earnshaw
Email: tonni at hetnet dot nl



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