On Mon, 2002-11-18 at 19:39, Bob Proulx wrote: > Tim Dijkstra <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2002-11-18 17:14:38 +0100]: > > > > Is there any reason to stick with bind8 other then convenience? I'm > > asking this because bind9 seems pretty mature, but the default bind is > > still bind8 I think... > > What is "convenient" about bind8? That is a serious question and not > meant to be snide. Please educate me. > > With the many security advisories that have been posted against bind8 > recently I find bind9 much more convenient since I have not needed to > update those servers as often. > > Perhaps you did not know that bind9 uses the exact same configuration > file as bind8 in almost all cases? Unless you are doing something > strange you don't need to change your configuration files at all. > > Bob
it's not that bind8 is better. it's just that it's more supported in many distributions. I guess you don't want to manually compile bind every time you get a security advisory so if you're using an OS that's default to bind 8 (solaris, debian?, etc...) you may as well stick with it, just make sure to update the binaries as they are released. of-course if you need bind9 because of a reason, that's a different matter. btw, there are debs of bind9, so I guess it's supported as well. I'm new to debian (just came back from solaris) so I don't know why there are both versions. maybe someone here knows more about the reasons... Bye -- Haim -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
