> -----Original Message----- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Saturday, September 06, 2008 7:46 PM > To: Jukka Pakkanen > Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED]; Vinny Abello; bind-users@isc.org > 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.
Additionally, mainstream support from Microsoft ended in 2005 for Windows 2000 Server. Extended paid for support ends in less than 2 years. You probably should consider upgrading to a newer supported operating system before that time. http://support.microsoft.com/lifecycle/?p1=7274 -Vinny
