BIND roadmap

[WBrown at e1b.org]

Shane Kerr <shane at isc.org> wrote on 02/28/2013 05:37:26 AM:

> On Thursday, 2013-02-28 11:19:01 +1100, 
> Mark Andrews <marka at isc.org> wrote:
> > 
> 
> ISC has no specific plans to end BIND 9 development. As Mark correctly
> says:

Thanks for the clarification.
 
> > BIND 10 is still a way off being a replacement for BIND 9.
> 
> We are missing a lot of features in BIND 10 that are present in BIND 9.
> However, it is not as correct to say:
> 
> > Development for both is still proceeding in parallel.  BIND 9 is
> > still the server to install for production.  BIND 10 is more for test
> > environments at this stage though we would like people to play with
> > it give feedback (good or bad). 
> 
> If BIND 10 has the functionality that you need - authoritative-only
> without BIND-managed DNSSEC signing - then BIND 10 *is* production
> ready today.

I need recursion, at least for some of our servers and I'd rather not have 
learn and maintain different versions.
 
> The main issue is that it is a 1.0.0 version, so does not have the
> history of installed bases to increase confidence.

Will it ever be referred to and Bind 10.0.1 or will it always be bind 10 
version 1.0.1?  The later sees confusing IMO.
 
> > As of BIND 9.9.3, BIND 9.9 will be
> > a extended support version.  BIND 9.9.0 was released March 2012
> > so it will be supported until March 2016 and perhaps further as per
> > the software support policy.
> > 
> > https://www.isc.org/wordpress/software/software-support-policy/
> 
> Note though that as far as I can tell, few people actually use the ESV
> software. Please let us know if the ESV policy works for you!

We're on a really, really old distro version (well, our externals are now 
9.9.2 w/ RRL patches).  New servers will run BIND compiled from source so 
I can pick my own upgrade path.
 
> Finally, we are currently discussing the BIND 9 and BIND 10 roadmaps
> and should have something we can publish shortly. Sorry to be so
> mysterious about it - it's nothing weird. :)
> 

I look forward to seeing that.



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