The summary is, bind 8 have a lot of new features.
Thanks a gain.
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I'd say whoever told you that is backward. BIND 4.x has some problems,
though it's still a good product for use inside a network. BIND 8.x fixes
the "cache pollution" problem that was found in BIND 4.x and exploited by
Kashpureff (spelling?) in his attack against the InterNIC a few months
ago, meant to forward the AlterNIC's cause. Instead, it got him thrown in
jail for a little while. Anyway, BIND 8.x is superior to BIND 4.x, though
it's trickier to set up.
Jason
Bind 8.1.1 fixes a lot of security related problems. It also is nice
when you have multiple Bind 8.1.1 servers, as they will communicate with
each other.
-Brian
I've installed both...
bind 496 is easy to learn and works just fine.
bind 8 has MANY new features and the administration changes a lot.
you may not need the new features like dynamic DNS and stuff.
most sites are just fine with 4.9.6
regards,
-- Marcelo Maraboli Rosselott Jefe de Area de Redes (Network Administrator) Direccion Central de Servicios Computacionales (DCSC) Universidad Tecnica Federico Santa Maria, Chile.There are some things that changed rather drasticly between 4 and 8. If you are concerned about securioty, you really want to be using version8. It will take a little doing, but it will work.
As with most things from Sun, you want to trash the shipped version for the public reference version. Sendmail and named are 2 perfect examples. --Gene
Hello,
to get an overview over bind8 (including new features) look at http://www.isc.org/bind8/index.html.
The version that comes with Sol2.6 is named 4.9.4-P1. You should user either 4.9.6 (the latest bind4, no further development) or use bind8. I'm running bind8 on several Sol2.6 machines without any problems.
Hope this helps, dirk.
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