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Re: [Sheflug] Re: Routing Problem
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> Isn't named.boot a bind4 (which no sane persion will be
> running?) file?
Yep and depends - providing you have the latest BIND 4 (4.9.7), security wise
you should be okay. DNS is one of those things "if it ain't broke don't touch
it" - if a site is running BIND 4 and is happy with it and if they're up to
date with security patches, there should be no problem :)
> Bind9 is still AFAIK still in beta, so be careful.
>
Nope. http://www.isc.org/
Current release
BIND Version 9.0.1 (Released November 10th, 2000)
BIND 9.0.1 is a maintenance release, containing fixes for
a number of bugs in BIND 9.0.0 but no new features (with
the exception of a few minor features added to dig, host,
and nslookup).
Though looking at their site, it seems they're trying to phase out Bind 4 now
- they've finally labeled it as deprecated. I imagine that this is since 9
was released (as last time I checked - a month or so back - it hadn't been
deprecated). The latest beta's are 9.1.0b2 and 8.2.3 T9B ...
> Once I got a grounding in how dns is set up (thanks to Matt's talk a while
> back) my little dns system has been very happy, and saves me hacking hosts
> files whan I add a new test system to the network.
>
DNS is dead easy really - zone files are just glorified /etc/hosts ... and
watch someone shoot me down for saying that :)
Chris...
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