Advertisement ;-) why upgrade to Bind 9.3.1
Guido Roeskens
groeskens at bluewin.ch
Tue Aug 30 18:27:34 UTC 2005
Hello List,
in the last month's the same questions are asked again and again.
The answer is almost always: Upgrade
Why upgrade?
- Bugs
Bind 9.1.3, 9.2.x (as used by many OS default installs) have bugs.
Those are fixed in 9.3.x (x beeing 1 at the time of writing)
- dynamic updates features
your yournal file keeps growing without an end?
Bind 9.3 brings you the option max-journal-size to set a limit
on (of) your journal files
- ISP admin features
I waited a long time for Bind 9.3, since it gave me the feature
to clear a single entry from the cache.
rndc flushname name [view]
With this I have an solution for the admins whining
"why do your DNS servers not update the cache for the
domain I changed?"
It's their fault in first place, and the "others" use other
DNS software like Bind 8 or MS DNS.
I still point out that they have an issue which now is resolved
on our DNS servers, but not on all DNS servers in the world.
- Security
Newer Bind releases have fixes for security issues.
While Bind 9 has had only a few security issues, they still
exist(ed).
- many other features I may have missed
DNSSEC improvements, .....
If you get to your "favorite" vendor with a bug report, they
always tell you "update". While I sometimes doubt that updating
will solve the problem, you have to do it to get the support
to look at your problem. (And you pay for the service)
This wasn't the case with Bind.
However, the issues we had with Bind 9 were solved when we upgraded.
So, follow Marks suggestion and update.
Kind regards,
Guido Roeskens
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