Re: Something's happening with named

From: Wes Peters (wes@softweyr.com)
Date: 04/04/01 

Date: Tue, 03 Apr 2001 23:11:17 -0600
From: Wes Peters <wes@softweyr.com>
To: Gerhard Sittig <Gerhard.Sittig@gmx.net>

Gerhard Sittig wrote:
>
> Sorry, I lack English words. But in German "heikel"
> ("troublesome"?) would be most appropriate. I'm sure the other
> replies will tend to some "highly dangerous from the non
> technical POV", too. :(

Exactly. DJB's code is quite good for what it does, but changing it
without his permission violates his license. That's his choice, and I
intend to respect it, as I'm sure we all do. Offering djbdns/tinydns
(unmodified, as the port/package builds it) as an option at or after
installation is a fine idea, but I wouldn't want to replace bind with
it due to the licensing inflexibility.

I can also think of numerous not-so-large installations that may want
to use features of bind that are not in djbdns, like Dynamic DNS.

> We all should be glad that it's so easy to not run bind and
> install djbdns from the ports instead. This makes it a
> consious(sp?) decision by the admin. It's very much like running

  conscious

> an MTA different from sendmail or running non main stream
> software at all: You're free to do it but you have to take care
> yourself ...

This would be one of the goals of making FreeBSD installations more
granular, being able to choose between multiple MTA configurations,
multiple DNS server configurations, etc. 

-- 
            "Where am I, and what am I doing in this handbasket?"
Wes Peters                                                         Softweyr LLC
wes@softweyr.com                                           http://softweyr.com/
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