Message-ID: Date: Thu, 26 Oct 2017 17:58:37 +0000 From: Evan_Hunt@isc.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" To: bind9-public@isc.org X-Mailer: MIME-tools 5.508 (Entity 5.508) Content-Disposition: inline Subject: should dlv.isc.org be a nonfatal warning? Content-Transfer-Encoding: binary X-RT-Interface: Web MIME-Version: 1.0 X-RT-Original-Encoding: utf-8 Content-Length: 748 I got an angry message from someone trying 9.12.0b1 who spent an hour trying to figure out why his server wouldn't start. It turned out to be because configuring lookaside with dlv.isc.org is fatal now. There was some kind of syslog problem that prevented him from seeing the error message right away. On the one hand, syslog problems aren't our responsibility, and he could have lost less time if he'd known to run "named -g". Still, he's got a point: if you're experimenting with a new release, you're going to try it with your existing configuration, and it's unsettling if it fails, and makes you feel less inclined to upgrade. Do we *need* to break ISC DLV lookaside configurations? If so, why? If not, let's change it back to a warning.