Re: What about BIND 9.3.4 in FreeBSD in base system ?

Chuck Swiger wrote:
Doug Barton wrote:
Chuck Swiger wrote:
Doug Barton wrote:

I've got two nameservers tracking 5-STABLE

I am not sure how to respond to that.
[ ...comments about moving to 6 snipped for brevity... ]

That's OK, I wasn't soliciting advice on which platform or OS version a given set of machines ought to run.

Right. As I understood it, you were arguing in favor of MFC'ing a fix to RELENG_5 because you have machines from that branch in a production setting. If I misunderstood your point, I apologize.

When the number of machines one deals with in a given environment changes from single-digit, to dozens, to hundreds, to tens of thousands, keeping machines updated to a bug-free, stable environment is more important than chasing features off the latest branch.

Yes, I understand those issues quite well. I used to manage hundreds of name servers for a company that had many 10s of thousands of machines. And I think that you are basically making my point, which is that users in a serious production environment are probably not using the BIND that comes with FreeBSD in an off the shelf configuration.

I'm starting to feel thankful that my important domains include off-site secondaries which are running djbdns.

EGRATUITOUSBINDBASHING

You seem to be disposed to believe it so, but regardless of opinions, I've had named crash under moderate loads ...

This thread isn't about what's the best brand of name server to use, it's about whether to MFC an update.

Doug

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