Bind 9.0.0 on Windows platforms..

[Danny Mayer]

		Bind9 is a total rewrite, so it's not for the faint of heart.  You are
basically
  starting from scratch, though a lot of the 8.2.x winnt code can be used
for reference
  in solving problems.

		Bind8.2.3 was more a matter of making minor fixes to the winnt piece which
  had not been changed since the 8.2.2-P5.  Even that was somewhat painful.
 However
  it worked for me and I have it up and running.  Of course it doesn't look
like it's going
  to get released.

				Danny

At 08:55 PM 9/21/00 -0400, Gary Wardell wrote:
>
>Hi Len,
>
>I might be interested in doing a port, but since there isn't any
>compensation for it it would have to be in my spare time, which for that
>last 2 or 3 months has been rather scarce.
>
>Do past ports involve making extensive changes to the code or is it mostly a
>matter of just recompiling and patching occasional syntax errors due to
>compiler differences?
>
>Gary
>
>
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: bind-users-bounce at isc.org [mailto:bind-users-bounce at isc.org]On
>> Behalf Of Len Conrad
>> Sent: Thursday, September 21, 2000 4:12 PM
>> To: bind-users at isc.org
>> Subject: Re: Bind 9.0.0 on Windows platforms..
>>
>>
>>
>>
>> > > David Conrad told me there are no plans (really, no Win32
>> development
>> > > resources at ISC) to port BIND9 to Win32.
>> > > Len
>> >
>> >You can't be serious...
>>
>> but I am.
>>
>> >9.0.0 has fixed many win32 bugs (says so in the
>> >changes file), and is supposed to make porting easier...!
>>
>> Have you noticed that ISC has not been able to muster the resoures to
>> fix the bugs in the NT port of 8.2.2 p5 over the last 5 or 6 months?
>>
>> Did you see David Conrad's bounty of $250 a couple of months ago for
>> anyone who could fix the bugs in 8.2.2 p5 NT port?
>>
>> Have you noticed that 8.2.3 or 9 is not available for NT or W2K ?
>>
>> It was only last week that Nortel Networks contributed the fixes of
>> the NT 8.2.2p5 Multiple-A record bug.
>>
>> There may be a BIND9 port to Win32, but from what I hear from David,
>> ISC won't be doing it, for lack of Win32 resources.
>>
>> Any takers?  And do a port of dig at the same time.
>>
>> Len
>>
>>
>>
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