Announcing the release of BIND 9.1.0b1

[Jerry Kemp - bind]

Hello,

I didn't get any response on this from the bind9 list so I am hoping 
that someone on the general bind list can steer me in the right
direction on these 2 questions.

Thanks,

Jerry



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> The following quote is from the 9.1.0 beta release announcement.  I have a couple
> of questions concerning this.  Every release (beta and production) of bind 9
> has had the following Solaris 2.6 message in it concerning thread signal
> handling.  Is this a major issue???  Its just my luck that every major name server
> I maintain is a Solaris 2.6 system so I have been sticking with the current
> 8.x release (i.e. 8.2.2p7).
> 
> Question 2.  This may have been here before and I just didn't see it but when
> did gcc support get dropped for commercial unix's???  (see quote at the bottom
> of the page).
> 
> Thanks,
> 
> Jerry Kemp
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> > 
> > 	There are a few known bugs:
> > 
> > 		On some systems, IPv6 and IPv4 sockets interact in
> > 		unexpected ways.  For details, see doc/misc/ipv6.
> > 		To reduce the impact of these problems, the server
> > 		no longer listens for requests on IPv6 addresses
> > 		by default.  If you need to accept DNS queries over
> > 		IPv6, you must specify "listen-on-v6 { any; };"
> > 		in the named.conf options statement.
> > 
> > 		There are known problems with thread signal handling 
> > 		under Solaris 2.6.
> >               ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
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> > 	Building with gcc is not supported, unless gcc is the vendor's usual
> > 	compiler (e.g. the various BSD systems, Linux).
> >       ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^         
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