Windows BIND v8.3.1. Utilities
Danny Mayer
mayer at gis.net
Thu Mar 28 05:59:37 UTC 2002
At 01:41 PM 3/27/02, Michael Kjorling wrote:
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>Or upgrade to BIND 9, which is available for Windows NT. This isn't an
>inherent Windows problem (I am not all that happy about Microsoft's
>line of products either, but some people need them) but rather a
>problem with the IPC being utilized by BIND 8, both on UNIX and
>Windows.
BIND 8 on Windows doesn't use IPC, at least not in the sense you mean
it. It uses the Services API's.
>BIND 9 uses an altogether different protocol and rndc which allows one
>to remotely control a name server.
>
>If you decide to go the BIND 9 route for a resolver, be sure to pick
>9.2.1rc1. 9.2.0 has a problem with timeouts that is minimized in
>9.2.1rc1 and solved in the new branch, 9.3, which we might see some
>day :-) (any chance we can have a backport?)
I have no idea what you mean by backporting.
Danny
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