BIND 10 Development Now Fully Underway

darthcamaro writes "A decade after work first began on version 9 of BIND, the widely deployed open source DNS server, work is now fully underway on its successor, BIND 10. '"One of the goals for BIND 10 is to allow people to customize and extend without too much trouble," Shane Kerr, BIND 10's program manager at the Internet Systems Consortium (ISC), told InternetNews.com.' Sounds good right? Only problem is that it's going to take a bit of time until BIND 10 is actually ready for production — potentially as long as five years!"

Re:Paul Vixie?

[Ethanol]

He's the president of the company [isc.org] that's doing the work.

Re:Fix LDAP Integrated Zones.

[ritcereal]

Read the man page for the dhcp3 configuration for 'on commit', 'on release', and 'on expiry' where you can run code to update your LDAP backend with whatever language you want. There's no reason you can't already do this.

Re:Modular design?

[stinerman]

Weird license?

IIRC, his code was unlicensed. DJB believed that you didn't need a license to run a binary, compile source, etc.; this is debatable. However, you do need a license to distribute someone's copyrighted works; this is very obvious. Of course, as you say he disclaimed the copyright, so the point is now moot.