Re: Potentially Predatory Pre-Announcement of Possible Vaporware (zinq-djbdns-0.01)

On Mon, Jan 12, 2009 at 12:58 PM, Mark Johnson <[email protected]> wrote:
> On Mon, Jan 12, 2009 at 11:54 AM, Jos Backus <[email protected]> wrote:
>> At work I have applied
>>
>>    http://lizzy.dyndns.org/~jos/djbdns-1.05-jumbo-josb.patch
>>
>> to the djbdns RPM we use.
>>
>> Of all the features this patch adds, in practice we use the multiple listener
>> IP addresses, SRV RR and round-robin features. It would be hard for me (both
>> technically and politically) to deploy djbdns without them there.
>
>    I'll see about picking some changes out of that.  There's a lot of
> noise in there due to built sources.  I wish djb had included a
> 'clean' target.  BTW, the cited URLs for the original patches are no
> longer valid.
>    If I merge the bits you really care about, are you interested in
> doing any testing?  I'm nervous about making non-trivial code changes
> until I have a good test suite in place.

That looks like it has a lot of the same stuff as the isp patch.
Presently, I'm leaning towards including the SRV functionality
directly, but I'll probably put the round robin stuff in as a compile
time option to configure.  No promises as to when I'll get around to
it.