net-dns/bind now has only version 9.9.2_p1 in the portage tree. This version has bugs which trigger an intermittent SERVFAIL result (mentioned in the Changelog for 9.9.3b1). In low bandwidth server environments this generates unusable DNS functionality. Version 9.8.3_p1 does not trigger the same problem, but the ebuild has been removed from portage so it is not easy to roll back the update. Reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1.try to emerge =net-dns/bind-9.8.3-p1 2. 3. Actual Results: '=net-dns/bind-9.8.3_p1' is not a valid package atom. !!! Please check ebuild(5) for full details.' Expected Results: emerge of old version of package. bind (and bind-tools) for version 9.8.x is still supported by isc.org so it would help if they remain available in the portage tree. With only a single version in the portage tree, there is no simple way to roll back to a previous release when someone has a problem with the current version. Obviously if you are affected by this or any other 'bind' bug in only release in the portage tree, that bug has a catastrophic effect on all network usage in the system, and you have no option to revert to an older release.
9.8.3_p1 (note the underscore) was removed from the tree in September last year, and is vulnerabilities fixed in 9.8.4_p1. 9.9 is the development branch so it shouldn't go stable at all.
Currently the only version of bind in the portage tree is 9.9.2_p1. The maintenance release of 9.8.4 is not available. From my system: uk ~ # cd /usr/portage/net-dns/bind uk bind # ls ChangeLog Manifest bind-9.9.2_p1.ebuild files metadata.xml uk bind # vi bind-9.9.2_p1.ebuild uk bind #
(In reply to comment #1) > 9.8.3_p1 (note the underscore) was removed from the tree in September last > year, and is vulnerabilities fixed in 9.8.4_p1. 9.9 is the development > branch so it shouldn't go stable at all. BIND 9.9.2-P1 is a security fix release of BIND 9, and supercedes BIND 9.9.2 as the latest *production release* of BIND 9.9.
My issue is not about bind 9.9.x ,,, it is about the fact that all other choices have been removed from the protage tree. At the very least I feel that the 9.8.x series (at some version) should remain so that people have a choice about which version they run.
I just added 9.8.4-P1 "back". Enjoy.
Why am I CC'd?
(In reply to comment #6) > Why am I CC'd? Because I replied to your comment. #c3.
