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Re: Bind 8?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Ramon Gandia)
Fri Oct 30 13:10:14 1998
Date: Fri, 30 Oct 1998 09:03:29 -0900
From: Ramon Gandia <rfg@nook.net>
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Jeff Hogg wrote:
>
> I recently began setting up a cache only dns at our office, while reading
> through the dns howto, I noticed that its talking about bind 8 and RH5.1
> came with 4.9.7. I've since found the older howto that talks about bind 4,
> but I was curious to know if bind 8 has been put out for linux as of yet?
> If so, does RH have an rpm of it anywhere? Is there any real need to move
> to bind 8? Any help is appreciated :)
Bind 8 in rpm form has been out a long time. I run it here on
my Nook Net DNS server with RedHat 4.2. It dates back to Oct
10/97-
over a year ago- although there has been a couple security updates
since.
My take on Bind 8 is this: if you do not need the features of bind
8,
be aware it is a lot harder to configure, and a lot harder to
figure
out than bind 4. I am not particularly enamored of it, and may
revert to bind 4 here if I keep running into snags. Mind you, the
snags are all in my brain, not on bind 8.... but its MY brain!
Can't get rid of the brain, so get rid of bind 8. Capisco?
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