BIND 9.4.2-P2-W1 stops responding

[Jukka Pakkanen]

Ok, if it's not doable on W2K then it's not... just very unfortunate. Guess 
there are quite a few W2K servers running BIND DNS, and upgrading those to 
W2K3 is not always easy or cheap.

Jukka

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Mark Andrews" <Mark_Andrews at isc.org>
To: "Jukka Pakkanen" <jukka.pakkanen at qnet.fi>
Cc: <mayer at gis.net>; "Vinny Abello" <vinny at tellurian.com>; 
<bind-users at isc.org>
Sent: Sunday, September 07, 2008 2:46 AM
Subject: Re: BIND 9.4.2-P2-W1 stops responding


>
>> Would have been very nice to know immediately when you made the decision 
>> of
>> dropping Windows 2000 users from your supportes list... we have been
>> patiently waiting for the fixes to the completely broken windows code for
>> weeks, since it was supposed to come "very soon" and "in days"... and now 
>> we
>> get a lakonic statement "W2K is no longer supported"... :(
>>
>> In a couple of weeks the ISC BIND has gone from "the best and most 
>> trouble
>> free piece of software ever" to "useless" to us. That's sad.
>>
>> Well, need to start looking for other options, upgrading all our, and our
>> clients DNS servers to W2K3 just to support the DNS software really is 
>> not
>> an option.
>>
>> Jukka
>
> Well if you can convince Microsoft to back port the function
> we need to use to stop named dieing to W2K then it will
> work with W2K.   W2K came off the suport list because we
> needed functionality that was not available in W2K.
>
> You didn't get any advance notice because the fix is only
> a couple of days old.  Unlike the unix based ports the
> Winsock code is still evolving under Windows to fill in
> missing bit of functionality.
>
> Mark
> -- 
> Mark Andrews, ISC
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