In article <20070315001818.772F8D7510C@mail.literati.org> you write:
>Hello, I am Sam Trenholme, the author of MaraDNS. In my MaraDNS advocacy
>page, I point out some problems with djbdns. I think my criticism is fair
>and balanced, since the issues I bring up are issues that have been
>discussed on this list several times--the akadns problem; the fact that
>djbdns hasn't changed one iota in five years; the fact that djbdns is
>not open source.
Your complaints boil down to the fact that djbdns is abandonware,
written, released, and no longer maintained by the author. It's true.
So what? Do you want your money back?
If there were people who wanted to update djbdns, it would not be hard
to put together a package like netqmail that bundled the original
package and a set of patches. The fact that nobody's done so tells me
that djbdns still works well enough for a lot of us. If we want other
DNS software, we know where to find it, and we'd just as soon not get
any more ads for yours.
R's,
John
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