Am 18.04.2017 um 19:22 schrieb Darcy Kevin (FCA):
Unspoken and false assumption: that every machine running BIND is connected to
the Internet.
I'm no fan of old, broken Microsoft OSes (or even the newer ones, for that matter), but let's be
clear here: BIND is for anyone who doesn't want to maintain a "hosts" file.
"Connected to the Internet" is a much smaller subset of *that* set.
but you hardly need a full featured bind for that usecase...
just setup whatever container/vm running dnsmasq which can even use a
hosts-file as source and likely there is something similar and tiny
available for windows native too
-----Original Message-----
From: bind-users [mailto:bind-users-boun...@lists.isc.org] On Behalf Of Paul
Kosinski
Sent: Monday, April 17, 2017 9:08 PM
To: bind-users@lists.isc.org
Subject: Re: BIND 9 windows XP builds
I can see somebody running XP for some "legacy" software that doesn't run
nicely on newer versions of Windows, but I would think it extremely risky to have such a
machine connected to the Internet.
Maybe whoever runs BIND on XP should consider converting that machine to Linux,
and running BIND on Linux?
On Mon, 17 Apr 2017 20:30:43 +0000
Evan Hunt <e...@isc.org> wrote:
Greetings,
For some time ISC has been providing three Windows builds for each
release of BIND 9: x64, win32, and windows XP.
Windows XP is well past its end of life and is no longer receiving
security updates. I'd like to stop supporting it after the upcoming
maintenance release, but it's been pointed out to me that a
significant number of people -- many thousands -- are downloading the
XP version every time we put out a new release.
This information surprised me. If you're one of those people, would
you mind responding, either on or off the list, to discuss it? Why
are you using XP to run a name server? Is it possible you're still
using the XP build out of inertia, but your OS would work equally well
with the win32 build? If you're really still running XP, do you have
a plan for transitioning to something newer?
We want to support the needs of our users, but to do that we have to
understand those needs, so please let us know what yours are. Thanks
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