[34367] in North American Network Operators' Group
RE: Reasons why BIND isn't being upgraded
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Roeland Meyer)
Sat Feb 3 22:38:01 2001
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From: Roeland Meyer <rmeyer@mhsc.com>
To: 'Paul A Vixie' <vixie@mfnx.net>, nanog@merit.edu
Date: Sat, 3 Feb 2001 18:34:10 -0800
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> From: Paul A Vixie [mailto:vixie@mfnx.net]
> Sent: Saturday, February 03, 2001 3:03 PM
> > The category "OS vendors" gets a little fishy... Do Linus
> Torvalds and
> > Alan Cox get on the list if they sign the NDA? How about Patrick
> > Volkerding?
>
> If they're mature trustworthy people (I know Linus but not
> those other guys)
> and if they need some time to get patches ready for large
> user bases, then I
> feel sure that they'd be welcomed gladly.
The catagory "OS vendors" may be a canard. MHSC is a Caldera VAR, but we
also have live servers and so do our clients. We had already deployed
BIND-8.2.3 before Caldera even made it available. That channel takes too
long. I'm not a direct Sun customer, but I'll wager that Sun has yet to make
it available to their customers. The same goes for HP and IBM.
