root.hints - apparmor access error with Bind from PPA

2021-06-03 Thread 3coma3
Dear list: I've used the PPA at https://launchpad.net/~isc/+archive/ubuntu/bind to upgrade bind from 9.11.3+dfsg-1ubuntu1.15 (current version for bionic-{updates,security}) to 9.16.16-2+ubuntu18.04.1+isc+1 (I was needing to use the validate-except clause and this new version supports it) After

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

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

2021-06-03 Thread Peter via bind-users
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 problem you want to edit a file no problem can't

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

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

2021-06-03 Thread Peter via bind-users
Maybe they could release a bind for windows ever year with limited support? But I guess bind will still work long after its not supported which is the only good thing. ___ Please visit https://lists.isc.org/mailman/listinfo/bind-users to unsubscribe

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