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Sorry, 8 years ago it was 2007 and updating BIND was done precisely by doing 'apt-get ...'. I still have a server running same installation of Debian since 2005
by piranha 12y ago
Sorry, 8 years ago it was 2007 and updating BIND was done precisely by doing 'apt-get ...'. I still have a server running same installation of Debian since 2005 (copied from one HDD to another and to a virtual server then), and it's been apt-get updated all the way through.
- pixl97 12y agoI know you're having fun showing off how easy it was to update BIND, but how many times have you had to update it since that time? Now how many times did he have to update the DJB name server?
- piranha 12y agoI don't know, I'm not counting them. And there is no doubt djbdns is better than BIND regarding security - it's just you can't use "8 years ago updating stuff was hard" as an argument, because it was not.
- drinchev 12y ago8 years ago I was using slackware as my main server distribution. Yes there is no "apt-get ..." in slackware even nowadays, but back then debian switched to aptitude at around 2005 ( sarge ) [1]. I remember around 2010 I reached uptime 3 years on one of the machines, with my good old patched slackware 10. Now imagine me switching to "apt-get ..." because of "easy security updates" for a tool that lived less than my uptime was. Yes this is the time that I had to use exactly this argument, but against doing precisely that. 1: https://www.debian.org/doc/manuals/project-history/ch-detailed.en.html https://www.debian.org/doc/manuals/project-history/ch-detail...