[rbldnsd] [RFD] [long[ish]] to be or not to be...

[Per Jessen]

Michael Tokarev wrote:

> Ok.  So here are the questions, finally... ;)
> 
>   o to start with, if this whole stuff will be implemented,
>     next version will be rather incompatible, and it'll be
>     the first really incompatible version.  I don't like
>     this at all, but from another point of view this way
>     eliminates quite some ugliness and makes things more
>     strightforward and clean.

This is a serious issue indeed.  It might even lead to having two
branches.  The 0.9xx and the <new branch>.  rbldnsd is used in critical
systems all over the world (well, certainly in ours), so major changes
are not very welcome. 

>   o while at it, maybe remove glue records and combined
>     dataset entirely? :)

Can you sum up the impact of this?  Only a couple of lines please ...

> Comments, anyone?
> 

It took quite a while for me to work through your entire email - and I
know I don't understand enough about rbldnsd internals to appreciate
all of it :-(

> One half of me tells me "lets broke it all for a better world", while
> another half says "hey, think about poor users who will have
> even no way to keep their config compatible!".  Oh well...

It is important to be aware that people will continue to run the
existing rbldnsd for quite some time, maybe years, regardless of a new
and better version. 


/Per Jessen, Zürich