[KLUG Members] bind9

[Adam Williams]

>Hello. Some time ago Jamie McCarthy posted about bind 8 vs. 9.
>Specifically, he mentioned that 9 had some 'hidden' code that we were
>not allowed to see. I noted that bind9 was not in debian/contrib or
>non-free, so I installed it when doing some system rebuilding work. I
>think it works great, much quicker than bind8, almost as fast as

It is much faster than bind8,  and it doesn't leak memory (which bind 8
always did, at least for me).

>dnscache. (bind9, for example, when measured with time (1), returns a
>host (1) request with all the time spent in userland, not kernel, like
>dnscache and unlike bind8.)

Yep.  
 
>So, is this just a rumor, or has ISC changed their license (to BSD), or
>is it something more complex? TIA.

Yes, the license changed.  Security issues, laws passed by Mr. Gate... I
mean Sauro... I mean Congress;  and people not wanting to go to jail. 
Silly developers.