On Thu, Apr 16, 1998 at 10:20:39PM +0200, Kaare Rasmussen wrote:
Why does everybody still use bind 4.9.xx, why not bind 8.0?
1. It's untested?
If you go to the web site they tell you that you should use 8.1.1
2. It's dificult to migrate? Why did the format of the config files change?
Yes the configuration file is different, but you can change logging levels for each DNS record and other things that I can not remember now.
3. There's no real incentive? Meaning, what's new in 8.0? 4. Another reason?
There will be encryption algorthms for bind 8.1.1 so that you can have your secondarys verify themselves before the primary will transfer the record info to them. And for the really parnoid you can have only specified DNS servers connect with yours by using the encryption; the encryption stuff is not done yet :( I would say that the configuration file is why most people do not convert. All of my new DNS servers, although they are only caching, run 8.1.1; I have not converted Our main server because of the time I would have to invest is rather large and I have other things that I HAVE to do first. -- Andrew L. Davis Network Operations adavis@vprlnk.net ViperLink International -- To get out of this list, please send email to majordomo@suse.com with this text in its body: unsubscribe suse-linux-e