[79629] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: djbdns: An alternative to BIND
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Jay R. Ashworth)
Tue Apr 12 13:15:26 2005
Date: Tue, 12 Apr 2005 12:57:08 -0400
From: "Jay R. Ashworth" <jra@baylink.com>
To: nanog@merit.edu
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.44.0504111643440.14707-100000@localhost.localdomain>; from Dean Anderson <dean@av8.com> on Mon, Apr 11, 2005 at 04:53:26PM -0400
Errors-To: owner-nanog@merit.edu
On Mon, Apr 11, 2005 at 04:53:26PM -0400, Dean Anderson wrote:
> "Empirically" is because BIND9 attempts to detect other BIND9 servers, and
> if it thinks the other server isn't BIND9, then it uses the traditional
> protocol. So it will work so long as no implementation can fool BIND9 into
> thinking the other server is BIND9, but then not implement the
> non-standard protocol.
Well, not to put too fine a point on it, Dean, why in he|| would you
want to *do* something that silly? Since the only identifiable reason
to pretend to be BIND9 *is to get that protocol modification*, if you
can't do that protocol, and you claim to be BIND9 anyway, you seem to
deserve what you get.
Cheers,
-- jr 'what was the subject of that sentence?' a
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