[34402] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Reasons why BIND isn't being upgraded
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Adam McKenna)
Sun Feb 4 15:10:11 2001
Date: Sun, 4 Feb 2001 15:07:49 -0500
From: Adam McKenna <adam@flounder.net>
To: Steve Sobol <sjsobol@NorthShoreTechnologies.net>
Cc: nanog@nanog.org
Message-ID: <20010204150748.E15505@flounder.net>
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In-Reply-To: <3A7DB50A.CD658A78@NorthShoreTechnologies.net>; from sjsobol@NorthShoreTechnologies.net on Sun, Feb 04, 2001 at 03:01:14PM -0500
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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
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