Re: BIND

["Alexei Polkhanov" <usenet@monteaureus.com>]

On Wed, 21 Apr 2004 14:34:46 -0600, Andrew Carroll wrote:

> Ok,
> Finally,
> The Ada BIND SourceForge project is 'live'.
> 
> I know there is supposed to be a mailing list with the project but I am new
> to sourceforge and I haven't figured out what the mailing list address is
> yet.
> So, if you want to be added/participate, post your sourceforge unix name to
> this list.

You guys not serious, are you ? You are going t reimplement BIND in Ada ?
First I worry what is the point ? Just _write it in Ada_, and that is it ?

How do you JUSTIFY THE NEED for it ?

You don't even bother to look what kind of problem BIND has right now, and
you definitely underestimated the scope. What about things like DNSSEC -
huge undertaking with puplic key encryption protocols, have performance
problems in BIND, TSIG, national languages support (like chinese unicode DNS
names).

Some zones can grow up to several millions of records - how you going to
cope with that ? What about Incremental Zone transfer protocol ? New BIND
definitely need advanced support for RDBMS like ORACLE, MySQL etc and
should include "pluggable" internal in-memory database by type of Berkeley
DB. 

So you signing for a minimum 60,000 LOC project, without doing any
research on subject. Noone need another BIND which does not solve problems of
existing BIND and that is not only couple of buffer overruns. 

Cheers,
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Alexei Polkhanov
Sr. Consultant/Software Systems Analyst
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