BIND8 entering end of life; changes to ftp.isc.org (affects mirrors)

[Paul Vixie]

Chris Thompson <cet1 at hermes.cam.ac.uk> writes:

> This would only make sense if BIND 10 were a recode-from-scratch exercise
> to the same extent as BIND 9 was. Somehow, I don't see that happening.

it won't be.  (BIND9 had to be; BIND10 doesn't have to be.)

in practice, there are enough powerdns, microsoft dns, nsd, and older-rev
BIND9 servers running, that no one bug in BIND9 could destroy the internet.
-- 
Paul Vixie