What is P6?

[kevind at metaip.checkpoint.com]

I don't work for ISC, so I don't have the official story.  I do
contribute to the ISC BIND release and have access to view their
CVS source code pool.

In the CVS source pool is a group of fixes that have a CVS tag of "P6"
ISC has never officially released "P6" to the public.  

I am guessing here that who ever put BIND in the OpenBSD release, has access
to the ISC CVS Source Pool and took a snapshot of the code and
put that in OpenBSD.

I am guessing that ISC was going to release P6 and then decided to do a full
release called BIND 8.2.3 and the fixes in P6 will be in it.

-Kevin
---------------------
Senior BIND Developer

-----Original Message-----
From: Jesse Whyte
To: Jakob Schlyter
Cc: bind-users at isc.org
Sent: 2/2/00 6:09 AM
Subject: Re: What is P6?

In the README.OpenBSD file it states...

"* Base Version of BIND from ISC is 8.2.2-P6"

So has ISC produced patches for a P6 release, or are the OpenBSD
security
patches the "P6" part?  More importantly, if the ISC did produce a P6,
why
didn't they release it to the public?  Are there issues that I need to
be
concerned about for my non-OpenBSD environments?

from ftp.isc.org...

ftp> dir /isc/bind/src/cur
227 Entering Passive Mode (204,152,184,27,222,188)
150 Opening ASCII mode data connection for /bin/ls.
total 1
-rw-r--r--    1 10179    10        399 Apr 29  1999 README
lrwxrwxr-x   1 716        10        8    Feb 17  1999 bind-4 -> ../4.9.7
lrwxrwxr-x   1 716        10        11  Nov 12 23:15 bind-8 ->
../8.2.2-P5



----- Original Message -----
From: Jakob Schlyter <jakob at cdg.chalmers.se>
To: Jesse Whyte <jwhyte at mail.state.tn.us>
Cc: <bind-users at isc.org>
Sent: Wednesday, February 02, 2000 2:04 AM
Subject: Re: What is P6?


> On Tue, 1 Feb 2000, Jesse Whyte wrote:
>
> > More importantly, why is it in my OpenBSD ports tree, but not in the
> > "official" source tree at ftp.isc.org...
>
> I believe P6 was never released from ISC, although we've included the
> patches in the OpenBSD version.
>
> > Just curious if I need something for my non-OpenBSD environment...
>
> The BIND8-port in OpenBSD includes some patches which is not included
in
> the ISC distribution. For more information, read README.OpenBSD in the
> distfile.
>
> /Jakob
>
>
>