We are sorry, we should have announced EOL on support at the same time Microsoft did, but we kept BIND running on W2k as long as we could. When the Kaminsky bug came out, we had to make a choice, and in order to have a fix for the 2003 and XP users, which are the vast majority, we were forced this solution. Sue
Jukka Pakkanen wrote: > Ok, if it's not doable on W2K then it's not... just very unfortunate. Guess > there are quite a few W2K servers running BIND DNS, and upgrading those to > W2K3 is not always easy or cheap. > > Jukka > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Mark Andrews" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: "Jukka Pakkanen" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Cc: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; "Vinny Abello" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; > <bind-users@isc.org> > Sent: Sunday, September 07, 2008 2:46 AM > Subject: Re: BIND 9.4.2-P2-W1 stops responding > > >>> Would have been very nice to know immediately when you made the decision >>> of >>> dropping Windows 2000 users from your supportes list... we have been >>> patiently waiting for the fixes to the completely broken windows code for >>> weeks, since it was supposed to come "very soon" and "in days"... and now >>> we >>> get a lakonic statement "W2K is no longer supported"... :( >>> >>> In a couple of weeks the ISC BIND has gone from "the best and most >>> trouble >>> free piece of software ever" to "useless" to us. That's sad. >>> >>> Well, need to start looking for other options, upgrading all our, and our >>> clients DNS servers to W2K3 just to support the DNS software really is >>> not >>> an option. >>> >>> Jukka >> Well if you can convince Microsoft to back port the function >> we need to use to stop named dieing to W2K then it will >> work with W2K. W2K came off the suport list because we >> needed functionality that was not available in W2K. >> >> You didn't get any advance notice because the fix is only >> a couple of days old. Unlike the unix based ports the >> Winsock code is still evolving under Windows to fill in >> missing bit of functionality. >> >> Mark >> -- >> Mark Andrews, ISC >> 1 Seymour St., Dundas Valley, NSW 2117, Australia >> PHONE: +61 2 9871 4742 INTERNET: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > -- Susan Graves Internet Systems Consortium +1 650-423-1323 office [EMAIL PROTECTED] See http://www.isc.org/training/ for the latest information on our training offerings
