BIND 9.4.2-P2-W1 stops responding

[Vincent Poy]

On Mon, Sep 8, 2008 at 7:41 PM, Mark Andrews <Mark_Andrews at isc.org> wrote:
>
> > On Tue, 9 Sep 2008, Mark Andrews wrote:
> >
> > >> Yeah aint that a nice kickinthepants... Sorry no new bind for yous if
> > >> you arent made of moneybags and running the latest windoze!  Guess we
> > >> will start looking at djbdns, it didnt have the bugs in the first
> > >> place. Or switch back to windozedns.. oh no.. did I say that??
> > >
> > >> disgruntled_used_to_be_bind_user
> > >
> > >     Firstly I don't call XP or W2K3 the lastest versions by any
> > >     measure.   There were some fixes that we would have liked
> > >     to have applied that required Vista or later.  Now that
> > >     change would have been forcing you to go to the latest
> > >     Windows versions.  Instead we found a sub-optimal workaround.
> > >     We just wern't able to find a workaround for this issue and
> > >     we looked.
> > >
> > >     If you are worried about money there are lots of free OS's
> > >     available which will run on your existing hardware which we
> > >     do support.
> >
> > I would say for smaller operations, the problem can be when you have "the
> > windows server" which is also configured as your DNS server (and often,
> is
> > also possibly your AD server.  But because of the functions of that
> > server and its ip, you cannot just supplant the whole machine.  Nor can
> > you easily shift everyone overnight to use a new DNS server.
>
>        Actually it usually is pretty easy to shift everyone by
>        just updating the nameservers in the DHCP leases.
>
> > In this situation, the better thought might be to run your BIND server on
> > some other OS -- Linux or BSD are both wonderful possibilities, and if
> you
> > need to click stuff to administer is, webmin is wonderful -- and have the
> > DNS server on your windows machine forward all its queries to that, which
> > should serve to somewhat-effectively isolate you from this issue.
> >
> > As for Windows 2000 being dead, MS has not completely abandoned it, and
> in
> > fact there are even some cases where they will still provide new licenses
> > for it (such as schools with donated hardware) -- there SHOULD BE a
> > supported fix from Microsoft, but 2k is in "extended support" right now
> --
> > which means to get anything but the barest of updates (even so much as a
> > daylight savings time fix) you gotta pay.  And mostly through the nose.
> >
> > Heck, even a DSL (Damned Small Linux) instance can run under a windows
> > machine and run your BIND code.
>
>        Which is one solution.
>
> > Hope any of these may help you,
> >
> > -Dan
> >
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The other solution is to keep Windows 2000 and run BIND under FreeBSD/Linux
in a VM under VMWare or something.

Cheers,
Vince