Re: BIND 8 is EOL as of 27 August 2007

14 msg	Allowing zone xfer to slave server
4 msg	lightweight management of 'thousands' of zones ...
5 msg	odd behaviour: BIND 9.3.3rc2

Re: BIND 8 is EOL as of 27 August 2007
\ Pavel Urban (29 Aug 2007)
. \ Mark Andrews (29 Aug 2007)
. \ Jaap Akkerhuis (30 Aug 2007)

4 msg	forward subdomain of authoritative zone?
1 msg	output configuration in use?
1 msg	resolving problem
2 msg	where is named.root.hints file?
2 msg	Marshal V Langlois is out of the office.
16 msg	Best way to handle multiple zones
5 msg	NAMED: annoying error in syslog
4 msg	Overriding CNAME and OTHER rule
2 msg	RPM for bind-9.4
1 msg	global option overriding zone option - sort of
3 msg	Odd result for a redeleageted domain
6 msg	BIND 9.4.1-P1 freezes randomly on FreeBSD 6.1
7 msg	Permission denied & Network is unreachable ...
11 msg	Blocking DoS on Bind9
2 msg	Examples/Documentation of bind9.4 libs
3 msg	Re: BIND 9.2.9 Beta 1 is now available.

Subject:	Re: BIND 8 is EOL as of 27 August 2007
Group:	Bind-users
From:	Jaap Akkerhuis
Date:	30 Aug 2007

>
> Out of curiosity - anybody knows why there were version 4 and then
> version 8? Not, let's say, 5?

To bring it into line with sendmail's major version if
I remember correctly.

Well, something like that. As far as I remember, when the original
BSD 4.2 (BSD for the VAX with true virtual memory and an IP/TCP
stack) got released, it was decided to homonize the SCCS major
release bunbers of the various sub systems. Apparently 8 was the
highest number (and even more vaguely I remember that that had to
do with BSD 2.8). Sendmail got bumped from 5(?) to 8, the same number
the brand new rewrite of BIND got.

Paul might be a better source to answer this.

jaap