Re: Deprecating BIND 9.18+ on Windows (or making it community improved and supported

2021-06-03 Thread Danny Mayer via bind-users
On 6/3/21 7:05 PM, Peter via bind-users wrote: Guess not even a subscription will not happen too. I'm having to try and do Bind on ubuntu and it just will not let me edit files like named.conf unless you do some vodoo that I don't understand and even updating the bind like how? Windows no

Re: Deprecating BIND 9.18+ on Windows (or making it community improved and supported

2021-06-03 Thread Danny Mayer via bind-users
On 6/3/21 2:17 PM, Reindl Harald wrote: Am 03.06.21 um 20:12 schrieb Danny Mayer via bind-users: I don't speak for ISC but it's important to understand that support of an operating system costs money and unless a company or organization is willing to step up with money it cannot be

Re: Deprecating BIND 9.18+ on Windows (or making it community improved and supported

2021-06-03 Thread Ondřej Surý
I am sorry, but I don’t follow. The catch is that the Windows support must be maintained for any new development and it doesn’t come for free. Sometimes we can’t even use what we need because there’s no support on Windows. As an example - we are replacing the internal memory allocator with

Re: Deprecating BIND 9.18+ on Windows (or making it community improved and supported

2021-06-03 Thread Reindl Harald
Am 03.06.21 um 20:12 schrieb Danny Mayer via bind-users: I don't speak for ISC but it's important to understand that support of an operating system costs money and unless a company or organization is willing to step up with money it cannot be expected to continue support. There was

Re: Deprecating BIND 9.18+ on Windows (or making it community improved and supported

2021-06-03 Thread Danny Mayer via bind-users
I don't speak for ISC but it's important to understand that support of an operating system costs money and unless a company or organization is willing to step up with money it cannot be expected to continue support. There was originally a need and the money for BIND9 on Windows which is why

RE: Deprecating BIND 9.18+ on Windows (or making it community improved and supported

2021-06-03 Thread Richard T.A. Neal
Thanks Vicky and Ondrej for providing clarity. I'll be sad to see it when this happens but as I said in my original post I don't underestimate the sheer amount of effort required to maintain BIND for Windows going forwards so it's completely understandable that you want to focus on platforms

Re: Deprecating BIND 9.18+ on Windows (or making it community improved and supported

2021-06-02 Thread negativeindex
Lol. End Of The Road. Queue boys 2 men... https://g.co/kgs/8G4XvF On Wed, Jun 2, 2021, 16:10 Victoria Risk wrote: > > On Jun 2, 2021, at 3:24 PM, Peter via bind-users < > bind-users@lists.isc.org> wrote: > > > > Well that sucks no more bind for windows...:( > > We are supporting BIND 9.16

Re: Deprecating BIND 9.18+ on Windows (or making it community improved and supported

2021-06-02 Thread Victoria Risk
> On Jun 2, 2021, at 3:24 PM, Peter via bind-users > wrote: > > Well that sucks no more bind for windows...:( We are supporting BIND 9.16 on Windows, and we are supporting 9.16 through the end of 2024, so we are not at the end of the road yet! https://kb.isc.org/docs/aa-00896 Vicky

Re: Deprecating BIND 9.18+ on Windows (or making it community improved and supported)

2021-06-02 Thread Victoria Risk
> On Jun 2, 2021, at 1:36 PM, Richard T.A. Neal wrote: > > Could I ask if a conclusion has been reached regarding this? I know there was > quite a bit of chatter in April/May but it's not clear to me whether any > conclusions were reached. We are pretty well decided that we will not support

Re: Deprecating BIND 9.18+ on Windows (or making it community improved and supported)

2021-06-02 Thread Ondřej Surý
Hi Richard, the current plan is to keep the Windows support for the lifetime of the 9.16 branch and then when 9.16 reaches-end-of-life do a snapshot of the last release and cherry-pick `dig.exe` into separate download because it was mentioned multiple times that people would like to keep dig

RE: Deprecating BIND 9.18+ on Windows (or making it community improved and supported)

2021-06-02 Thread Richard T.A. Neal
Could I ask if a conclusion has been reached regarding this? I know there was quite a bit of chatter in April/May but it's not clear to me whether any conclusions were reached. If 9.16 is to be the last officially supported Windows version then have you decided yet which features from 9.17

Re: Deprecating BIND 9.18+ on Windows (or making it community improved and supported)

2021-05-13 Thread Danny Mayer
I didn't think you were blaming anyone. I was just explaining the history though my work on it largely stopped after 2008-9. Danny On 5/13/21 1:14 PM, Ondřej Surý wrote: Danny, I didn’t write the email to put the blame anywhere or point fingers. I am just describing the situation. Ondřej

Re: Deprecating BIND 9.18+ on Windows (or making it community improved and supported)

2021-05-13 Thread Ondřej Surý
Danny, I didn’t write the email to put the blame anywhere or point fingers. I am just describing the situation. Ondřej -- Ondřej Surý — ISC (He/Him) My working hours and your working hours may be different. Please do not feel obligated to reply outside your normal working hours. > On 13. 5.

Re: Deprecating BIND 9.18+ on Windows (or making it community improved and supported)

2021-05-13 Thread Danny Mayer via bind-users
On 5/13/21 9:45 AM, Ondřej Surý wrote: Hey, just a follow-up with a recent real life example. I’ve spent few days hunting a problem on Windows that got introduced by a fix to outgoing UDP selection code. While having bugs in normal (and this was really one-liner), it’s abnormal to not have

Re: Deprecating BIND 9.18+ on Windows (or making it community improved and supported)

2021-05-13 Thread Ondřej Surý
Hey, just a follow-up with a recent real life example. I’ve spent few days hunting a problem on Windows that got introduced by a fix to outgoing UDP selection code. While having bugs in normal (and this was really one-liner), it’s abnormal to not have tools for debugging the problem. Here’s

Re: Deprecating BIND 9.18+ on Windows (or making it community improved and supported)

2021-05-11 Thread Danny Mayer via bind-users
On 5/10/21 5:11 AM, Ondřej Surý wrote: On 10. 5. 2021, at 10:29, Richard T.A. Neal wrote: At this time I don't therefore believe that running BIND via WSL or WSL2 on Windows Server is a viable reliable solution. Thanks for the analysis. The alternative is as I outlined in the first email,

Re: Deprecating BIND 9.18+ on Windows (or making it community improved and supported)

2021-05-10 Thread Ondřej Surý
> On 10. 5. 2021, at 10:29, Richard T.A. Neal wrote: > > At this time I don't therefore believe that running BIND via WSL or WSL2 on > Windows Server is a viable reliable solution. Thanks for the analysis. The alternative is as I outlined in the first email, somebody needs to step up and

RE: Deprecating BIND 9.18+ on Windows (or making it community improved and supported)

2021-05-10 Thread Richard T.A. Neal
I spent some time last week looking at options for running BIND under WSL on Windows Server. Unfortunately it doesn't presently look like a viable solution for the following reasons: There are two versions of WSL: WSL1 and WSL2. Development has all but ceased on WSL1, but WSL1 is the only

Re: Deprecating BIND 9.18+ on Windows (or making it community improved and supported)

2021-04-30 Thread Tony Finch
Robert M. Stockmann wrote: > > Does bind 9 need C11 atomics ? Yes. BIND used to have its own atomic implementation but that kind of code is tricky and arcane, so it's better to use the standard implementations in the C library. It is not just a matter of the hardware BIND runs on: atomics rely

Re: Deprecating BIND 9.18+ on Windows (or making it community improved and supported)

2021-04-30 Thread Robert M. Stockmann
On Thu, 29 Apr 2021, [utf-8] Ondřej Surý wrote: > Date: Thu, 29 Apr 2021 13:35:32 +0200 > From: "[utf-8] Ondřej Surý" > To: BIND Users > Subject: Deprecating BIND 9.18+ on Windows (or making it community > improved and supported) > > Hi, > > we've been discussing the /subj for quite

RE: Deprecating BIND 9.18+ on Windows (or making it community improved and supported)

2021-04-29 Thread Richard T.A. Neal
I would personally be very sad to see the end of BIND for Windows, but I don’t underestimate the challenges the ISC Team has in maintaining it. Unfortunately I'm a VB.NET hobbyist programmer rather than a C/C++ developer so I can't speak to the usefulness of the following statement, but the

Re: Deprecating BIND 9.18+ on Windows (or making it community improved and supported)

2021-04-29 Thread Ondřej Surý
> On 29. 4. 2021, at 15:42, Timothe Litt wrote: > > Would reducing support to just the diagnostic tools be a helpful middle > ground? Not really. The tools use the same internal libraries for networking. And it would bring more complexity and not less complexity. There’s no middle ground -

Re: Deprecating BIND 9.18+ on Windows (or making it community improved and supported)

2021-04-29 Thread @lbutlr
On 29 Apr 2021, at 05:35, Ondřej Surý wrote: > * Windows now has WSL2 > (https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/wsl/install-win10) that can be used > to run BIND 9 natively I'd suggest this be the first listed reason as it pretty much makes all the other reasons irrelevant. OTOH, I don't

Re: Deprecating BIND 9.18+ on Windows (or making it community improved and supported)

2021-04-29 Thread Timothe Litt
I gave up on running named on Windows long ago, so I generally support this direction. However, I do use the diagnostic tools (dig, delv, rndc, nsupdate) for troubleshooting.  It can be helpful to diagnose from the client environment (e.g. thru the same firewalls, anti-virus, buggy network stack,