[57025] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: how to get people to upgrade? (Re: The weak link? DNS)
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (E.B. Dreger)
Wed Mar 26 17:08:15 2003
Date: Wed, 26 Mar 2003 22:07:49 +0000 (GMT)
From: "E.B. Dreger" <eddy+public+spam@noc.everquick.net>
To: nanog@merit.edu
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.30.0303270941310.25587-100000@boggle.ihug.co.nz>
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SL> Date: Thu, 27 Mar 2003 09:55:08 +1200 (NZST)
SL> From: Simon Lyall
SL> I'm also worried about any concept of trying to "force"
SL> people to upgrade, even with bind I use some features (namely
SL> an external named-xfer program) of bind v8 that arn't
SL> available in bind v9 . For the servers which I need this on I
I'm curious... why not use "dig @wherever zone.example axfr"
instead?
SL> run bind 8.3.3 (Vendor backported with the 8.3.4 fixes) of
SL> copy the named-xfer program over to the bind 9 box.
Agreed re the hazards of being heavy-handed. However, I'm sure
there would be those who disabled the automated checkup... the
question is, would they be the crowd for whom the approach in
question was intended?
Eddy
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