From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.4 (2020-01-24) on polar.synack.me X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-0.3 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00, REPLYTO_WITHOUT_TO_CC autolearn=no autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 103376,ddb34e4ee5e28db0 X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-ArrivalTime: 2004-04-25 09:38:04 PST Path: archiver1.google.com!news1.google.com!news.glorb.com!newsfeed3.easynews.com!easynews.com!easynews!border1.nntp.sjc.giganews.com!nntp.giganews.com!local1.nntp.sjc.giganews.com!nntp.novus-tele.net!news.novus-tele.net.POSTED!not-for-mail NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 25 Apr 2004 11:38:03 -0500 From: "Alexei Polkhanov" Organization: Monte Aureus Subject: Re: BIND Date: Sun, 25 Apr 2004 12:38:03 -0400 User-Agent: Pan/0.13.3 (That cat's something I can't explain) Message-Id: Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada References: Reply-To: usenet@monteaureus.com MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit NNTP-Posting-Host: 65.32.244.145 X-Trace: sv3-GfRkUCc2vwlvFtux1XMLt0+QdhaV0bdUqCeMFx5cVo/+LRQeYU3s+RAeIioivBp7wwau/KN1WAk3T5f!8cNEddUTW77x5u5x3ys8WdCtgBUIKnGOz+JJSwrQ1DPp2oudBlhm7tTNhb/19Io7l86H+0lDrwhl!m7GzLTav5eTq1541fELt5uBXDJwsx5z+U0sqeTQ= X-Complaints-To: abuse@novus-tele.net X-DMCA-Complaints-To: abuse@novus-tele.net X-Abuse-and-DMCA-Info: Please be sure to forward a copy of ALL headers X-Abuse-and-DMCA-Info: Otherwise we will be unable to process your complaint properly X-Postfilter: 1.1 Xref: archiver1.google.com comp.lang.ada:7474 Date: 2004-04-25T12:38:03-04:00 List-Id: 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, --- Alexei Polkhanov Sr. Consultant/Software Systems Analyst Tel: (604) 719-2515 E-mail: usenet@monteaureus.com http://www.monteaureus.com/