Reasons why BIND isn't being upgraded

Sun Feb 4 02:34:10 UTC 2001

> From: Paul A Vixie [mailto:vixie at mfnx.net]
> Sent: Saturday, February 03, 2001 3:03 PM

> > The category "OS vendors" gets a little fishy... Do Linus 
> Torvalds and
> > Alan Cox get on the list if they sign the NDA?  How about Patrick
> > Volkerding?
> 
> If they're mature trustworthy people (I know Linus but not 
> those other guys)
> and if they need some time to get patches ready for large 
> user bases, then I
> feel sure that they'd be welcomed gladly.

The catagory "OS vendors" may be a canard. MHSC is a Caldera VAR, but we
also have live servers and so do our clients. We had already deployed
BIND-8.2.3 before Caldera even made it available. That channel takes too
long. I'm not a direct Sun customer, but I'll wager that Sun has yet to make
it available to their customers. The same goes for HP and IBM.