For new deployments, I would likely choose RHEL6 over RHEL5; unless you have a compelling reason to run RHEL5. RHEL6 includes BIND 9.7.0. You mention that you would like to keep your DNS boxes "appliance" like. If this is the case, rolling out source code and compiling on each box may not be the best solution for you. If you decide to compile your own BIND, I would look at rolling RPM's for them to make deployment and upgrades easier. Also, keep in mind that while RHEL BIND versions will never be cutting-edge/brand-new, security patches are backported into them.
Hope this helps. Josh -----Original Message----- From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Mike Diggins Sent: Tuesday, March 15, 2011 9:45 AM To: [email protected] Subject: RHEL5 BIND in PROD I'm about to transition my name servers from Solaris 10 to RedHat Linux 5.6. I'm debating whether to compile BIND directly from source as I usually do or use one of the RHEL packages, likely the newly released 9.7.0-6.P2. I would like to make our DNS a little more appliance based to ease some of the support burden. I'm also concerned with stability over new features. I'm interested to know what others are doing. -Mike _______________________________________________ bind-users mailing list [email protected] https://lists.isc.org/mailman/listinfo/bind-users _______________________________________________ bind-users mailing list [email protected] https://lists.isc.org/mailman/listinfo/bind-users
