BIND doesn't run on XP

[Danny Mayer]

Pedro Rafael Sánchez Aranda wrote:
> **Hello,
> 
> I'm new on BIND, and I tried to install and configure both 9.7.0-P1 and
> 9.6.2-P1 versions on a Windows XP SP3. In both cases they were correct
> installations but they produce the same error:
> starting BIND 9.x.x-P1 -g
> built with default
> found 1 CPU, using 1 worker thread
> .\socket.c:639: INSIST(err == 0) failed
> exiting (due to assertion failure)
> 
> I used 'netstat' command to see if 53 and 953 ports are in use but there
> aren`t.

Are you sure you are running Windows XP? It's looking for the
ConnectEx() function and it's failing. That function first was available
on Windows XP and failure to find that is an indication that you are not
running XP.

Danny