A policy for removing named.conf options.

Barry Margolin barmar at alum.mit.edu
Thu Jun 13 15:55:39 UTC 2019


In article <mailman.716.1560422804.711.bind-users at lists.isc.org>,
 Matthijs Mekking <matthijs at isc.org> wrote:

> ## Deprecating
> 
> A configuration option that is candidate for removal will be deprecated
> first.  During this phase the option will still work, but we will be
> communicating to users that the option is going to be removed soon. A
> user that has deprecated options configured will see warnings in their
> logs and needs to take action to get rid of those log messages.
> Configuration options that are deprecated will be identified in the
> Release Note for the release they are deprecated in.

As others have said, I'm not sure how effective this will be. I suspect 
most people don't check the logs routinely, only when something goes 
wrong.

Is it really much of a hassle to leave the obsolete options in the 
parser, but just ignore them?

-- 
Barry Margolin
Arlington, MA


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