any news/info re: RPZ2+RRL patches for bind 9.9.4-P1?

[Mark Andrews]

In message <1385152907.15717.50929393.189B37C8 at webmail.messagingengine.com>, je
n142 at promessage.com writes:
> Hi Mark,
> 
> On Thu, Nov 21, 2013, at 06:14 PM, Mark Andrews wrote:
> > Did you try applying rpz2+rl-9.9.4-P1.patch to 9.9.4-P1? 
> 
> No, not yet.  Having had bad luck with applying the wrong version patch
> in the past, I've been waiting for an 'official' update.

The -P's are minimal changes which just cover one or two issues
unlike maintenance releases which can address a hundred issues.

> > Apart from the version file it should apply cleanly and
> > you can ignore the version file or patch it by hand if you
> > want.  I would append "-rpz2+rl.13269.14" to "RELEASEVER=1"
> > to give "RELEASEVER=1-rpz2+rl.13269.14" which results in
> > a full version string of "9.9.4-P1-rpz2+rl.13269.14".
> 
> Noted as an option. Thanks!
> 
> Given that there's no response/info at all from that project either
> here, at their site, on their own mailing list, or via email, as much as
> it's useful/helpful functionality, I'm wondering whether it's wiser to
> just get rid of it from production.

rpz2 code is itegrated into BIND 9.10.

> Adding supported 3rd-party functionality to Bind is enough of a hack for
> mere mortals -- adding unsupported/dead code sounds like a really bad
> idea.

It isn't dead.  Generating a new patch just isn't a high priority
item for Vernon.

> JenL
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