Re: Debian/Ubuntu: Why was the service renamed from bind9 to named?

2020-07-20 Thread Mark Andrews
Just for the record here are the release dates for each maintenance series. 9.0.0 2000-09-16 (one off - marked not for production) 9.1.0 2001-01-18 - 9.1.3 2001-07-03 (6 months) 9.2.0 2001-11-25 - 9.2.9 2007-09-25 (5 years 10 months) 9.3.0 2004-09-22 - 9.3.6 2008-11-19 (4 years 2 months) 9.4.0 200

Re: Debian/Ubuntu: Why was the service renamed from bind9 to named?

2020-07-20 Thread Mark Andrews
> On 21 Jul 2020, at 03:45, Ted Mittelstaedt wrote: > > > > 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

Re: AW: Debian/Ubuntu: Why was the service renamed from bind9 to named?

2020-07-20 Thread Michael De Roover
Sorry about that, the email might've been a bit too emotionally loaded. The issues pile up.. and that's eventually the result. I'm not using FreeBSD anywhere anymore but found some resources online suggesting that the package name is bind916. The closest I could find to unwinded is Unbound whi

Re: AW: Debian/Ubuntu: Why was the service renamed from bind9 to named?

2020-07-20 Thread Ted Mittelstaedt
On 7/20/2020 11:23 AM, Michael De Roover wrote: If that is true, I hereby lost all faith in humanity.. well whatever faith I had left. This has been going on for like half a decade now. Nobody ever went broke catering to the human desire for ease

Re: AW: Debian/Ubuntu: Why was the service renamed from bind9 to named?

2020-07-20 Thread Michael De Roover
If that is true, I hereby lost all faith in humanity.. well whatever faith I had left. This has been going on for like half a decade now. A few weeks ago I saw here on the list someone suggesting that BIND is a reference to bondage in BDSM, so perhaps it has to do with that... Lest we forget t

Re: AW: Debian/Ubuntu: Why was the service renamed from bind9 to named?

2020-07-20 Thread Ted Mittelstaedt
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 dro

Re: Debian/Ubuntu: Why was the service renamed from bind9 to named?

2020-07-20 Thread Dennis Clarke via bind-users
> And for what it's worth, not all systems moved away from "named" to > "bind9". I've been running FreeBSD for decades, and I can't remember > ever calling the service "bind9". No one ever calls named anything other than named. In a sane world. -- Dennis Clarke RISC-V/SPARC/PPC/ARM/CISC UNIX

Re: Debian/Ubuntu: Why was the service renamed from bind9 to named?

2020-07-20 Thread tale via bind-users
On Sun, Jul 19, 2020 at 7:06 AM @lbutlr wrote: > On 17 Jul 2020, at 11:56, Ted Mittelstaedt wrote: > > 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 want

Re: DNS error, from a newbee to the real experts..

2020-07-20 Thread Weeltin
Hi Josh, Thanks for your answer, it made me go trough all the config again, just to make sure that it wasnt pointing to the authoritative server anywhere but in the configuration of the recursive server I saw that "“recursion requested but not available" when i send the query against the authorit