On 7/17/2020 11:35 AM, John W. Blue wrote:
Speaking about things to be annoyed over ..
I am still ticked that FreeBSD dropped BIND from the distribution for something
called unwinding or whatever it is.
I'm not happy that happened either but the simple fact is that if BIND
would quit dropping support so fast for it's older versions that never
would have happened. The fundamental problem was that BIND dropped
support for it's older versions before the distros dropped support for
their distros. This is happening with a lot of other software packages.
When FreeBSD was used mostly for servers it wasn't a problem. But more
and more people are using it for desktop use where they want to
basically install it and forget about it, never run patches, never give
a fig about security. Simpler programs like Unbound have less code
and so less things to go wrong, need less patches, and are easier to
support for a longer period of time so they get supported for a longer
period of time. Also, Unbound's main purpose in life is as a caching
dns program. Nobody who runs a server on FreeBSD uses Unbound.
Ted
John
-----Original Message-----
From: bind-users [mailto:bind-users-boun...@lists.isc.org] On Behalf Of Ted
Mittelstaedt
Sent: Friday, July 17, 2020 12:57 PM
To: bind-users@lists.isc.org
Subject: Re: AW: Debian/Ubuntu: Why was the service renamed from bind9 to named?
Your personal experience is not the gobal truth. It is your opinion but other
experienced pepole see it different than you.
Hmm I'm a bit late to this discussion but I will chime in with the others. The service always was
called "named" pronounced "name Dee"
it was called that in the Nutshell book which is easily the authoritative book
on the subject, it was called this before you were born and it was kind of the
height of hubris for it to ever be named
bind9 in a software distro.
In fact, the ONLY reason that the name "bind9" was ever even coined at all was because
the changes from bind8 both in the syntax of the config file and how the program operated they
wanted to boot admins in the behind to get them to change their config files. It should have been
put to bed as a name a long time ago, or named "bind version 9" like every other software
program does with their versions.
So as an experienced person who has been doing this you-nuxs thing since
1982 - I DON'T see it different - and in fact, I see it as a RETURN to what it
originally was!
Ted
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