Re: BIND 9.9.3b1 is now available

[Timothe Litt]

Maybe it will chug along for a while if you don't configure with newstats.

But suppose someday you want to update to the newer, better software.

Are you going to run a separate server to test against?



As you say, this is an API....

Flag days are never fun, and this is avoidable.


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On 25-Jan-13 18:37, Mike Hoskins (michoski) wrote:

If you manage more than one server, when the monitoring software changes, are all the servers going to go down and reboot with the new config synchronously? What if you have lots of them (e.g. 10s or 100s)? In different admin domains?

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From: Timothe Litt <l...@acm.org>
Date: Friday, January 25, 2013 6:13 PM
To: "bind-users@lists.isc.org" <bind-users@lists.isc.org>
Subject: Re: BIND 9.9.3b1 is now available

On 25-Jan-13 17:32, Michael McNally wrote:

   BIND 9.9.3b1 is the first beta release of BIND 9.9.3.

     Makes available a new XML schema (version 3.0) for the statistics
     channel that adds query type statistics at the zone level,
     flattens the XML tree and uses compressed format to optimize
     parsing. It also includes new XSL that permits charting via the
     Google Charts API on browsers that support javascript in XSL.
     To enable, build BIND with "configure --enable-newstats". [RT
     #30023]

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2 bits of feedback on the beta announcement:

I have software that reads the stats channel.

Me too.  Took awhile to get right, I'd hate to see it break.  :-(

Please, if you have a new schema, put it on another URI so that software
that wants the old schema gets it, and software that wants the new
explicitly requests it.  E.g.  '/statistics/v3'

Some sort of "API-like" deprecation would at least be cool...

But am I reading right?  If I don't build with --enable-newstats, all my
monitoring and trending scripts will continue to chug happily along with
the old view?

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