Here's another interesting post (at least it was to me). Tobias
-----Original Message----- From: Pete Ehlke [mailto:lists-djbdns@rfc822.net] Sent: Wednesday, July 03, 2002 17:02 To: dns@list.cr.yp.to Subject: Re: Packet reconstructioni
On Wed, Jul 03, 2002 at 01:30:58PM +0200, Laurent G. Bercot wrote:
I'm wondering this topic isn't discussed more in-depth on
this list.
Why should it be ? it's off-topic. This list is about BIND replacements for Unix ; the
problem lies within
the BIND DNS client library. End of matter.
Erm. Well, no. It's also in BSD-derived libc implementations going back for *years*. It may take commercial vendors who use those implementations some time to issue fixes. There are no doubt legacy systems running that code whose vendors have gone out of business. These are real concerns in the real world, where 'get rid of those systems' may not be an option due to management, human resource, technical, or budgetary considerations, or may take months or even years to work through the bureaucratic approval process.
In that environment, responsible administrators take precautions to protect systems that can't be immediately fixed. Right now, the only option for doing that seems to be BIND 9. If this list is genuinely "about BIND replacements for Unix", then discussing how to manage that task using things other than BIND 9 is squarely on topic.
-P.