On 23 Sep 2004, at 17:27, Matthew Poole wrote:
That is pretty slack, really. One wonders if they knew before release.
It was known before release (9.3 shipped with that list of known defects). It's not so much slack, or sloppy coding, as disciplined release engineering. Fixing that bug before release would have required a new release candidate, which would have needed to proceed through internal testing, BIND Forum testing and then public testing, all of which would probably have put back the release another two weeks. Since the named.conf manual page doesn't contain anything much of use anyway (all the BIND documentation lives in the Administrator's Reference Manual, and the manual pages are really just pointers to that) this didn't seem like a reason to delay the release. If there had been bugs with CERT-worthy security issues in them found in the final release candidate, the code would not have been released. The items in the "known defects" list fall well below that bar. Joe