owner-nanog@merit.edu wrote:
however, since BIND9 is compatible with BIND8 and BIND4, and with microsoft's DNS, and with virtually every other DNS in the world except for "tinydns",
Err, "compatible" because it detects them and then does the right thing, and uses the traditional protocol.
You know...I'm reminded of something we're all familiar with that came up, oh...lets say 8 years ago. There were some new-fangled devices out there that were capable of communicating over POTS at somewhere close to 56 kbps. It seems to me there were two flavors of them, K-Flex and X2. You might have heard of them. Anyway, if your modem had K-Flex firmware and was trying to connect to something using X2, you couldn't connect anywhere near 56 kbps. And vice-versa. The two technologies were incompatible. And yet, once they detected the incompatability, they were able to renegotiate down to a protocol they had in common, say v.32. Now eventually we came out with the v.90 standard so that everyone could play together nicely. Point is, even before there *was* a 56k standard, all those "incompatible" modems could still communicate, just not using their new proprietary protocols. So, I guess I'm wondering....how is what BIND9 does substantially different than the case I've outlined above? Andrew