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</o:shapelayout></xml><![endif]--></head><body lang=EN-US link=blue vlink=purple><div class=WordSection1><p class=MsoPlainText><span style='color:#376092;mso-style-textfill-fill-color:#376092;mso-style-textfill-fill-alpha:100.0%'>Thanks Evan. </span><span style='font-family:Wingdings;color:#376092;mso-style-textfill-fill-color:#376092;mso-style-textfill-fill-alpha:100.0%'>J</span><span style='color:#376092;mso-style-textfill-fill-color:#376092;mso-style-textfill-fill-alpha:100.0%'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoPlainText><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoPlainText>-----Original Message-----<br>From: Evan Hunt [mailto:each@isc.org] <br>Sent: Tuesday, December 31, 2013 1:27 AM<br>To: Gaurav Kansal<br>Cc: bind-users@lists.isc.org<br>Subject: Re: Enabing RRL in bind</p><p class=MsoPlainText><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoPlainText>On Mon, Dec 30, 2013 at 05:47:13PM +0530, Gaurav Kansal wrote:<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoPlainText>> In bind 9.9.4, Reponse-Rate Limit doesn't work until you configure <o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoPlainText>> bind with "-enable-rrl" option.<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoPlainText>> <o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoPlainText>> I was wondering why is it so ?<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoPlainText>> <o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoPlainText>> Why not this feature is enabled by default in bind.<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoPlainText><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoPlainText>RRL was added to the BIND 9.9 branch late, in release 9.9.3.<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoPlainText><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoPlainText>Ordinarily, it's our policy only to add new features in 9.x.0 releases.<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoPlainText>We felt that this feature was important enough to make an exception to our usual rule, but since code changes of that size always introduce a risk of destabilization, we decided to make it a compile-time option: those who want RRL can get it; those who don't can skip it.<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoPlainText><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoPlainText>RRL will be enabled by default in 9.10.0.<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoPlainText><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoPlainText>--<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoPlainText>Evan Hunt -- <a href="mailto:each@isc.org"><span style='color:windowtext;text-decoration:none'>each@isc.org</span></a><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoPlainText>Internet Systems Consortium, Inc.<o:p></o:p></p></div></body></html>