Anyone still interested in Philip Hazel's "makezones" ?

[Martin Marcher]

On Wed, Mar 12, 2008 at 3:12 AM, Gregory Hicks <ghicks at cadence.com> wrote:
> Um-m-m-m...  Failed.  It looks like "anonymous" ftp wasn't set up...
>  Or maybe *I* don't know how to spell anonymous...
>
>  Any assist?

Or maybe the original mail states that anonymous ftp has been closed
since beginning 2008 and lists another URL where to get it?

>
>  > From: Chris Thompson <cet1 at hermes.cam.ac.uk>
>  > To: Bind Users Mailing List <bind-users at isc.org>
>  > Subject: Anyone still interested in Philip Hazel's "makezones" ?
>  > Date: 12 Mar 2008 00:27:41 +0000
>
>
> >
>  > It's been drawn to our attention that there are still many references
>  > around the web to [don't try it, it won't work]
>  >
>  >   ftp://ftp.cus.cam.ac.uk/pub/software/programs/DNS/makezones
>  >
>  > (or similar). ftp.cus.cam.ac.uk has not supported anonymous ftp since
>  > the beginning of 2008, and is due to go altogether later this year.
>  >
>  > Makezones is a Perl program written by Philip Hazel (best known,
>  > perhaps, as the author of Exim) in 1993, that generates mutually
>  > consistent forward and reverse zone files from a common source.
>  > At one time it was included as a contributed program in the BIND
>  > distribution. It even gets a mention in RFC 2072 ...
>  >
>  > Philip retired last year, and tells me he no longer has any interest
>  > its future (if any). For the purposes of maintaining the main DNS
>  > zones in Cambridge, makezones developed weird and wonderful local
>  > mods and is now used only in a vestigial way. The last "public"
>  > version was 0.33 (October 2000, and yes, this does include the Y2K
>  > fixes to the serial number maintenance!) and this what was available
>  > at the above URL until recently.
>  >
>  > If anyone is still seriously interested in it, we don't want to deny
>  > them access to it. On the other hand, there is no serious chance of
>  > anyone here enhancing it, fixing bugs, or offering advice on it. We
>  > have thought of making it available marked as "historical, frozen,
>  > unsupported software", but I thought I would test the temperature
>  > here first.
>  >
>  > It is *temporarily* available as
>  >
>  >   http://www.cus.cam.ac.uk/~cet1/justfornow-makezones-0.33
>  >
>  > if you want to take a look.
>  >
>  > --
>  > Chris Thompson               University of Cambridge Computing
>  Service,
>  > Email: cet1 at ucs.cam.ac.uk    New Museums Site, Cambridge CB2 3QH,
>  > ,                            United Kingdom.
>  >
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