how to get people to upgrade? (Re: The weak link? DNS)

Wed Mar 26 22:07:49 UTC 2003

SL> Date: Thu, 27 Mar 2003 09:55:08 +1200 (NZST)
SL> From: Simon Lyall

SL> I'm also worried about any concept of trying to "force"
SL> people to upgrade, even with bind I use some features (namely
SL> an external named-xfer program) of bind v8 that arn't
SL> available in bind v9 . For the servers which I need this on I

I'm curious... why not use "dig @wherever zone.example axfr"
instead?

SL> run bind 8.3.3 (Vendor backported with the 8.3.4 fixes) of
SL> copy the named-xfer program over to the bind 9 box.

Agreed re the hazards of being heavy-handed.  However, I'm sure
there would be those who disabled the automated checkup... the
question is, would they be the crowd for whom the approach in
question was intended?

Eddy
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