ipv6 adoption

Borja Marcos borjam at sarenet.es
Wed Feb 16 15:55:55 UTC 2022



> On 16 Feb 2022, at 16:50, Grant Taylor via bind-users <bind-users at lists.isc.org> wrote:
> 
> On 2/16/22 7:35 AM, Mark Tinka wrote:
>> I was assuming Linux has something similar, where in userland, you have the option to install which train of BIND you want, regardless of OS version.
> 
> Most of the -- what I'll call -- binary distributions of Linux tend to have a fairly small range of any given versions of software in the repositories provided by the Linux distribution provider.
> 
> There is nothing that prevents you from sourcing other versions, binary or compile it yourself, from other providers.  But some people are unwilling to accept the risk.

Well, (shameless plug) that’s the great thing about FreeBSD Ports. Moreover, many packages have important compile time options. What did the 
packager decide to omit for whatever reasons?

For software in which knowing what you are running is critical (such as bind) it’s a no brainer.




Borja.



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