New subject: DNS Flag Day, Feb 1st, 2019

27 Jan 2019

...
 Contacting Debian will always yield the same results as
they've stated
for decades now.  They fix end-user affecting bugs, but they don't
introduce new versions, features, etc.  At one time there was the
Debian Volatile project that hosted "fast moving" versions of software
(spamassassin, clamav, etc), But that project was disbanded years ago. 
It is what most distributions do.
And frankly I am not that unhappy with it.
Sometimes it is nice to have a recent version of something but when a system
is continuously updating everything it requires constant attention because things
are breaking all the time.
Unfortunately most open source developers do not consider backward compatibility
very important, they just declare some feature you are using as "deprecated"
and
you will have to find a workaround or abandon some functionality.
I prefer to do that at my own convenience, not at the time the distribution maintainer
forces it upon me.

...
 As of today, the authoritative voice is ISC for whether
or not bind
v9.5.x should be used.. and they say don't.   Are you using v9.5.5 as
an authoritative server, if so as a master?   
We are not using version 9.5.5 and I never wrote that.  It is version 9.9.5.

Rob

Re: [44net] DNS Flag Day, Feb 1st, 2019