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ISC Releases the First Look At BIND 10

Posted by timothy on from the and-in-the-darkness dept.

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.)"

4 of 172 comments (clear)

  1. Excellent by NEDHead · · Score: 1, Funny

    Slow, buggy, hard to work with, but we'll fix it later. And not Microsoft?

    1. Re:Excellent by choongiri · · Score: 2, Funny

      MS Office is the best DNS server ever!

      You appear to be confused. DNS stands for Domain Name System, not Does Nothing Satisfactorily.

  2. Re:How by Ethanol · · Score: 4, Funny

    Is that pronounced? Does it rhyme with sinned or blind ?

    Wined and dined.

  3. Re:What's the point of a rewrite... by Tackhead · · Score: 2, Funny

    What's the point of a rewrite...

    ...if you're doing it to end up with new code that is "inefficient, difficult to work with, and riddled with bugs"?

    Why, backwards-compatibility with BIND 8 and 9, of course!