Instalaltion on windows XP

[Danny Mayer]

Brad Knowles wrote:
> At 8:38 PM -0700 2005-08-11, Michael Louie Loria wrote:
> 
> 
>> Is it possible Bind on windows XP? Coz when I install bind. It
>> appears on the services. then after a few minutes. it disappears.
> 

Look at your event log. You probably don't have named.conf set up or you 
didn't define a directory directive in the options section. The latter 
is a requirement for Windows otherwise it has no idea where to start to 
look for the zone files.

> 
> 	My understanding is that BIND on Windows requires NT or 2000, not 
> XP.  But you'd have to check the ISC web page to be sure.  Or wait 
> until one of the programmers who knows that code backwards and 
> forwards gets some time to answer your question.
> 

Why not Brad? It works for me and I wrote it.

Danny