[Info-vax] OpenVMS V9.0-C Released July 29th

[Terry Kennedy]

On Monday, August 3, 2020 at 12:23:48 AM UTC-4, Simon Clubley wrote:
> On 2020-08-02, John H. Reinhardt <johnhreinhardt at thereinhardts.org> wrote: 
> >      DECnet IV
> 
> Seriously ? That's a priority target ? How many of you are still using
> this in production for VSI to justify porting it at this time ?

Presumably VSI has surveyed their current and potential customers and this was high enough on the list to be on of the first things to be added.


> ...because if the TCP/IP stack suffers from security issues, then you
> can safely assume the DECnet Phase IV stack does as well (just like
> any other networking stack does).

I believe the VSI TCP/IP product for x86 is a licensed locally modified
version of MultiNet*, which does a reasonable job keeping up with security 
fixes. Most of my gripes with MultiNet are based on things like the an-
cient version of BIND included. While relevant security fixes get back-
ported, it is missing support for modern RR types like CAA, and it is old
enough that you can't even specify the type numerically. 

* At least that was the plan when VSI first announced the VMS port to x86.
I don't know if that plan changed along the way.