DLZ deprecation timeline

[Douglas Bagnall]

hi Ondřej,

Thanks for the answer. That is good news.

I will convey this to the Samba community.

cheers,
Douglas


On 04/02/2026 13:59, Ondřej Surý wrote:
> Hi Douglas,
> 
> there are no plans to remove DLZ yet. If we ever decide to remove this, 
> we will follow https://gitlab.isc.org/isc-projects/bind9/-/wikis/Policy- 
> for-removing-named.conf-options <https://gitlab.isc.org/isc-projects/ 
> bind9/-/wikis/Policy-for-removing-named.conf-options>
> 
> This basically means that the earliest date for removal of this feature 
> would be 4+ years in the future, but in this case it is unlikely to 
> happen unless we speak to Samba project and have a clear path for you to 
> go ahead. We are not going to pull the rug from under you.
> 
> Ondrej
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>> On 4. 2. 2026, at 0:54, Douglas Bagnall via bind-users <bind- 
>> users at lists.isc.org> wrote:
>>
>> hi
>>
>> According to the 9.20.4 release notes,
>>
>>> the DLZ interface itself is going to be scheduled for removal
>>
>> but I haven't seen more detail about that scheduling (or scheduling of
>> the scheduling).
>>
>> Is there a likely time frame for this?
>>
>> The Samba project uses DLZ. We are well aware of its problems, but it
>> will not be easy for us to move to dyndb, because we need to make
>> complicated authorization decisions to match Active Directory semantics.
>>
>> cheers,
>> Douglas Bagnall
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