Notice of plan to deprecate map zone file format

Anand Buddhdev anandb at ripe.net
Fri Sep 10 08:22:56 UTC 2021


On 09/09/2021 21:13, Victoria Risk wrote:

Hi Vicky,

> We would like to deprecate the `map` zone file format in future
> branches of BIND. The proposal is to deprecate the feature in the
> 9.16 branch, (users will see a warning when this feature is used but
> it will still work through the end of the 9.16 branch), and to
> disable the feature in 9.20.0 (it will no longer work in this and
> subsequent versions).
When I read about the "map" format, I didn't feel comfortable using it, 
because it felt risky.

I think you're making the right decision here, and I welcome the 
deprecation and eventual removal of this feature.

Regards,
Anand


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