Should I upgrade to 9.2?

Barry Margolin barmar at genuity.net
Fri Jan 25 16:15:15 UTC 2002


In article <a2r4fr$ird at pub3.rc.vix.com>, Hannu  <hannu at nospam.org> wrote:
>I am planning to upgrade my sendmail/DNS server OS. I am currently
>running Bind 8.2, and it works fine with my RH7.1 system.
>The OS I am planning to install (Mandrake 8.1) comes with Bind 9.2. Is
>there any reason why not to run Bind 9,2?
>My DNS is auth for two C classes, a very busy server for over 1000 users,
>web services etc.

BIND 8.2 has known security problems, you should upgrade to at least 8.3,
and if you're going to upgrade you might as well go all the way to 9.2.

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