What about BIND 9.3.4 in FreeBSD in base system ?

[Chris Marlatt]

Doug Barton wrote:
> up to create a recursive resolver that only listens on 127.0.0.1. I 
> would expect that users who rely on BIND in a production setting to 
> either have upgraded to FreeBSD 6-stable, be using the port, or some 
> other custom configuration, or both.
> 
> Doug
> 

Again, why would you expect someone to have already upgraded when they 
have more than a year of advertised support left on a production release?

I personally have very few 5.x systems left, primarily because I've been 
trying to heed the warnings, but seeing how 5 series is being fast 
tracked into retirement makes me extremely suspicious of what is to 
happen to 6 series when 7 is released and considered production. I'm 
sure many other people wonder the same thing and look at the lengthy 
support for 4 series which lasted 7,... 8 years and have come to expect 
something similar for future releases. Whereas I'm certainly not going 
to say progress is evil I will admit that the FreeBSD I see today is not 
the same one from yesteryear.

Now, I can clearly understand and appreciate the burden that, as of 
yesterday, 3 active versions can impose on the development team but why 
pass part of that burden onto a user base that's done nothing but 
embraced the products produced by its efforts?

	Chris