Re: Proposed F19 Feature: BIND10 - next generation of the popular BIND9 DNS server rewritten from scratch

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On Wed, 2013-01-16 at 21:55 +0100, Adam Tkac wrote:
> On Wed, Jan 16, 2013 at 03:21:41PM -0500, Bill Nottingham wrote:
> > Jaroslav Reznik (jreznik@xxxxxxxxxx) said: 
> > > As decided by FESCo on 2012-12-05 meeting, all proposed Features are required
> > > to pass through the community review by announcing them on devel-announce list.
> > > FESCo votes on new features no sooner than a week from the announcement.
> > > 
> > > = Features/BIND 10 =
> > > https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Features/BIND10
> > > 
> > > * Detailed description:
> > > BIND10 suite implements two crucial network services - DNS and DHCP. 
> > > The BIND10 is going to replace both widely used ISC BIND9 and ISC DHCP4 
> > > software in the future. It is written from scratch and has modular design.
> > 
> > And... dhcp6?
> 
> Ah, with DHCP4 I meant DHCP 4.X.X, not IPv4 DHCP, sorry for bad description.
> BIND10 of course supports both IPv4 and IPv6 DHCP protocols. I removed the "4"
> suffix on wiki to avoid confusions.
> 
> > I note that the feature page describes this as a parallel installable stack.
> > Is there a reason to keep both versions around in a way we didn't with
> > other bind major upgrades?
> 
> Yes because there is _no_ backward compatibility with current bind9.
> Configuration is completely different, management is completely different etc...
> People definitely need some time for testing and transition to bind10.

It is not only a matter of configuration, is bind10 going to be
pluggable ? FreeIPA with bind-dynd-ldap depends on bind9 and will
require some major work to port it to bind10 ... or something else.
In the meanwhile it will depend on bind9 being available in the
distribution.

Simo.

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Simo Sorce * Red Hat, Inc * New York

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