Windows 2000 support....
Danny Mayer
mayer at gis.net
Thu Sep 11 20:26:51 UTC 2008
Vincent Poy wrote:
> On Thu, Sep 11, 2008 at 9:30 AM, Danny Mayer <mayer at gis.net
> <mailto:mayer at gis.net>> wrote:
>
> SpamList wrote:
> > I was reading through the release notes on the latest updates to BIND
> > 9.4.x, and noticed that there is a note in there that Windows 2000
> is no
> > longer being supported.
> >
> > This leads me to two questions:
> >
> > 1) Does this mean that there are OS or API level features now
> being used
> > in BIND that are not available on Windows 2000,
>
> Yes. ConnectEx() is not available prior to Windows XP.
>
> or does this simply mean
> > that ISC and their associated testers are no longer running tests
> on the
> > older OS?
> >
>
> No.
>
> > 2) What is the latest version of BIND that *is* supported on
> Windows 2000?
> >
>
> None.
>
> Danny
> > I've still got Windows 2000 deployed, and I'm not in a position to
> > update those servers at the moment, so I need to find out which
> > version(s) of BIND I can still use.
> >
> > Thank you for any information or assistance.
>
> Would this work for the ConnectEx() for NT4/2000?
>
> http://www.blushingpenguin.com/mark/blog/?page_id=4
>
> Cheers,
> Vince
No, that has a LGPL license. I haven't looked at the code that he
implemented.
Danny
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