Fwd: Re: Odd problems trying to make use of libbind as a replacement resolver...

[Brad Knowles]

Folks,

	Sorry, I wanted to make a correction to my previous statement:

>	BIND-4 was the second to worst "spaghetti code" mess that this industry
>  has ever seen, and BIND 8 was probably the worst.

	Turn that around.  BIND-8 was the second-worst "spaghetti code" 
mess, while BIND-4 was the worst.  The development team that Paul 
Vixie drew together around him did the best they could to clean up 
the BIND-4 code, but there was only so much they could do.  Which is 
part of why BIND-9 was done as a complete ground-up re-write.

	There is a page at the ISC website entitled "A Brief History of 
BIND" at <http://www.isc.org/index.pl?/sw/bind/bind-history.php>, and 
there is also some information at <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BIND> 
and <http://www.serverwatch.com/tutorials/article.php/3497601#hist>, 
among others.

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