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

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Jay R. Ashworth)
Sun Jan 28 01:10:03 2001

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Date: Sun, 28 Jan 2001 01:00:32 -0500
From: "Jay R. Ashworth" <jra@baylink.com>
To: nanog@merit.edu
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In-Reply-To: <g3u26k5ii0.fsf@redpaul.mfnx.net>; from Paul Vixie <vixie@mfnx.net> on Sat, Jan 27, 2001 at 09:54:31PM -0800
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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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