MultiBind Testers Wanted

Tue Apr 10 21:33:35 UTC 2001

for the record...

> American Webmasters is completing modifications to Bind 9.1.1 in a new =
> version called MultiBind.  MultiBind solves the problem of multiple root =
> networks on the internet by allowing the specification of more than one =
> root.cache file.
> 
> Cache files are processed in order of sysadmin-specified preference. =
> When looking for a TLD, MultiBind searches each of the RSNs until a =
> match is found.
> 
> MultiBind will also allow the sysadmin to specify RSN-TLD preferences so =
> that control is not just at the root server level.
> 
> We are looking for testers - anyone who would like the code, please =
> respond here. The beta release will be ready on May 1, 2001
> 
> http://www.nic.lion

The source code for BIND is available under a BSD-style license, which means
the owner and copyright holder (ISC - Internet Software Consortium, Inc.)
permits full redistribution, in source or binary, modified or not.

However, the product name is protected.  "MultiBind" may be an infringement
of ISC's rights to the BIND product name.  In any case, this derivative of
ISC's work is not sanctioned or approved by ISC in any way, and in fact
ISC's long-held position is that any proposal involving "multiple root
networks" is nothing short of domain piracy and also violates the DNS
protocol.

In addition, the possibly infringing product "MultiBind" from American
Webmasters directly contravenes the IETF IAB's position as laid out in RFC
2826(*1).  ISC *strongly* recommends that the comments in RFC 2826 be
heeded by the Internet community, and that the extensions described above
for the infringing product "MultiBind" *not* be used by anyone connected to
the Internet(*2).

(*1)	See ftp://ftp.ietf.org/rfc/rfc2826.txt.

(*2)	Q: But what IS the Internet?
	A: "It's the largest equivalence class in the reflexive, transitive,
	symmetric, closure of the relationship 'can be reached by an IP packet
	from'". Seth Breidbart 