On Mon, 11 Jul 2005, OpenMacNews wrote:
> hi philip,
>
> per a post
> (<http://lists.apple.com/archives/Unix-porting/2004/Nov/msg00030.html>) by
> Jordan Hubbard (Engineering Manager, BSD technology group, Apple Computer) on
> apple's unix-porting list re: BIND_8_COMPAT utilization ...
>
> "It would be better if you ported this software to the BIND9 APIs anyway
> (or found someone able to do this for you). We're going to retire the BIND8
> compatibility APIs in the not-at-all-distant future and the BIND_8_COMPAT
> hack was a solution which was only destined to work for a release or two.
> Its days are numbered."
>
> it may, hence, be worthwhile to _avoid_ the BIND_8_COMPAT flag altogether ...
I am sure there are many, many sites round the world that are still
running Bind 8. It takes a long time for obsolete software to go away
(just take a look at Exim 3 for a start). So the necessary work would
not only be to move Exim to the Bind 9 API, but also to implement a
backwards compatibiity feature for Bind 8. This is unlikely to be done
in a hurry.
--
Philip Hazel University of Cambridge Computing Service,
ph10@??? Cambridge, England. Phone: +44 1223 334714.
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