North American Network Operators Group Date Prev | Date Next | Date Index | Thread Index | Author Index | Historical Re: Reasons why BIND isn't being upgraded
On Sun, Feb 04, 2001 at 03:01:14PM -0500, Steve Sobol wrote: > > Any flames sent my way will be accepted graciously -- but they won't > change my opinion. > > Adam McKenna wrote: > > > | The Vixie cluster of companies---Vixie Enterprises, Nominum, Vayusphere, > > | PAIX, M.I.B.H. (swalloed by Metromedia), etc.---is already doing its > > | best to make money off BIND. They give us configuration problems and > > | then sell support services; they give us reliability problems and then > > | sell backup services; they give us security problems and then sell early > > | access to security information. > > Frankly - and this is my own opinion here as I have no formal association > with Paul Vixie or any of his business enterprises[0] - this isn't fair. I just thought it was interesting. Obviously he is coming from a different perspective than any of us (that of a competitor), but he does have a point. > WRT Config issues: Hello, people... this was a major-version upgrade... it > behooves you to do what I am going to do as soon as I am ready to upgrade, > and test out all of your zones on another machine before deploying on the > production boxen. I understand that many of you are running a significantly > larger number of zones than I am. I do not think, in most cases, that that > would preclude testing before deployment. Agreed. Since you have just given me an excuse to post, I wanted to point out that I have written a BIND-to-djbdns migration guide, which is available at http://www.flounder.net/djbdns/bind-to-djbdns.html . It's still pretty much a first draft and I welcome any comments. --Adam -- Adam McKenna <[email protected]> | "No matter how much it changes, http://flounder.net/publickey.html | technology's just a bunch of wires GPG: 17A4 11F7 5E7E C2E7 08AA | connected to a bunch of other wires." 38B0 05D0 8BF7 2C6D 110A | Joe Rogan, _NewsRadio_ 3:03pm up 239 days, 13:21, 9 users, load average: 0.01, 0.05, 0.02
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