On Mon, 11 Apr 2005, Kevin Oberman wrote:
When Paul took over support of BIND at about 4.4, it was a horrid mess and rapidly moving toward death.
As long as we are getting history out, It was moving towards death as a _result_ of Vixie involvment from 1987-1994. I knocked heads with Vixie around 1989/91 several times about Hesiod root servers, bugs and such issues. Vixie was a such a jerk back then that I just gave up on DNS altogther for about 10 years, as did a lot of other people. That's what caused it to languish so that by 1994, Vixie could "take it over". But it was a mistake on to let it go to him. DNS in general has languished for 10 years, at least. Look how long it took to get DNSSEC. Compare DNSSEC to SSL, for example. Or HTTP. Of course, on the other hand, if he wasn't such an butthead, we wouldn't have the veritable bonanza of DNS implementations, today. So, I suppose unreasonable jerks are good overall, perhaps. I was surprised to read that no BIND8 developers were allowed to touch BIND9. I knew that Vixie wasn't involved, but I thought there was a more specific reason for that. --Dean -- Av8 Internet Prepared to pay a premium for better service? www.av8.net faster, more reliable, better service 617 344 9000