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Re: sorry to ruin several of your evenings...

  • From: Jay R. Ashworth
  • Date: Sun Jan 28 01:11:20 2001 
On Sat, Jan 27, 2001 at 09:54:31PM -0800, Paul Vixie wrote:
> BIND 9's server shares not a single line of code with BIND 8's.  So if genetic
> diversity is what's worrying anybody, please check out BIND 9.1.0.  But if you
> just want the BIND 8 you already have (except, without certain security flaws)
> then BIND 8.2.3 is just what you need.

Cool.  Major version number bump; complete rewrite.  That's the way
it's supposed to work.

Paul?  Quick one sentence version of how far from "drop-in" the upgrade
is?

Cheers,
-- jra
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