Should admin tool depend on 9.1, or stick with 8.2?
Brad Knowles
brad.knowles at skynet.be
Tue Mar 27 22:21:13 UTC 2001
At 10:14 AM -0800 3/27/01, jrusoff at apple.com wrote:
> Apple is looking at writing some frontend tools for DNS admin.
> Realistically, we probably can't support both 8.2 and 9.1, so we are
> wondering if it is sensible to move forward and build the tool to work
> with 9.1, or to stay with 8.x. My guess is that most people are
> reluctant to migrate to Bind 9 because of database migration headaches.
> Are there other performance or compatibility issues that folks see
> holding back the widespread use of Bind 9?
Speaking as a guy who just got my copy of MacOS X but won't be
installing it on my 400Mhz Powerbook G3/Pismo until certain bugs are
fixed (mostly to do with drivers, such as Lucent WaveLAN cards), I
would strongly encourage you to go with BINDv9 -- by the time you
ship such a tool, BIND 8 will most likely be history, and BINDv9 will
be the only show in town.
That said, I don't believe that there are significant differences
between a properly configured BIND 8 server and one running BINDv9,
so I don't understand why you couldn't support both.
--
Brad Knowles, <brad.knowles at skynet.be>
/* efdtt.c Author: Charles M. Hannum <root at ihack.net> */
/* Represented as 1045 digit prime number by Phil Carmody */
/* Prime as DNS cname chain by Roy Arends and Walter Belgers */
/* */
/* Usage is: cat title-key scrambled.vob | efdtt >clear.vob */
/* where title-key = "153 2 8 105 225" or other similar 5-byte key */
dig decss.friet.org|perl -ne'if(/^x/){s/[x.]//g;print pack(H124,$_)}'
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