SUMMARY: BIND 4.9.5 or 8.1?

Subir Grewal (subir@indiaserver.com)
Thu, 12 Jun 1997 16:49:01 -0400 (EDT)

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I wanted to upgrade to a public BIND after getting tired of Sun BIND's
quirks. After looking at both 4.9.5 (patch level 1) and 8.1, I've decided
to go with 4.9.5. 8.1 would be, at this point, too big a leap for us.
I'm running 4.9.5 on another machine, and haven't noticed any problems, if
things go well, I'll upgrade our nameservers in the next few days. What
brought things to a head was the manner in which sun's named was logging
all lame delegations, I had a multi-megabyte log file in a couple of days.
This is a compile option in 4.9.5 and I will turn it off (wish Sun's
syslog was more like Digital Unix's much more elegant logging facilities)

Thanks to,

Steve Lodin <swlodin@delcoelect.com>
Parthiv Shah <parthiv@nscc.com>

Steve provided a set of directions to have BIND v8 compile on Solaris 2.4,
the mods are minor and are attached.

Subir Grewal subir@indiaserver.com

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