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ISC Releases the First Look At BIND 10
Ethanol writes "Internet Systems Consortium, producers of BIND 9 (the most popular DNS implementation on the internet), have spent the past year working on a successor, BIND 10. It's entirely new code, redesigned and rewritten from the ground up, and now the first glimpse of what it will eventually look like has been released. 'This code is not intended for general use, and is known to be inefficient, difficult to work with, and riddled with bugs. These problems will all be fixed over the next couple of years, as functionality is added and refined, and the software matures. However, the codebase has a good framework for moving forward, and the software is capable of serving as a DNS server with significant functionality.' (Full disclosure: I work for ISC and I'm one of the engineers on the project.)"
Why would they even release it if their ground-up rewrite is so pathetic? Were they worried that BIND might be losing its rich reputation as the worst piece of widely-used network software ever made? If so, bravo, guys.
Seriously. "Riddled with bugs"? The implication is that nobody at ISC knows how to write good software. Not really surprising. Bind 4 was a mess. Bind 8 was a mess. Bind 9 was a mess.
"Insanity: doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results." (Einstein)
They need to start over using sane software design methodology. That probably means hiring competent software engineers.
How do you sleep knowing DJB is out there and you can't compare? How can this be your 10th version with no hope of being better at writing DNS code. Swallow your pride, and start with a known good code base, you know like DJB, then cock it up... you are bind after all... that's what you guys do, and that you ARE good at. Every week, every month for years, decades, it's another bind security alert. Bind is the only code that I know of that is the exception to the saying "you can't make a silk purse out of a sows ear"... you can if there is no ear left, is there any original code in b9? Back to the drawing board wasn't far enough... jesus christ. Are interns the only ones allowed to code? Are you getting M$ rejects? I don't understand, do the opposite of what you think you should do, and maybe you have some decent code there, ask people on the street if this this and this are a good idea... ask your grand parents, filp coins... something other than what you do day in and day out fuck! -rich
Why are you writing it in C/C++??
If you need an important infrastructure system to be as known-good as possible, there are much better choices. (Ada is even part of the gcc, and so is portable across a wide range of architectures.)
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