ISC BIND 9.4.2-P2-W1 is now available

[Mark Andrews]

> and what about WIND 9.5 P2?
> 
> Is there a version patched too?

	Coming.
 
> ----- Original Message ----- 
> From: "Evan Hunt" <Evan_Hunt at isc.org>
> To: <bind-announce at isc.org>
> Sent: Thursday, September 04, 2008 10:21 PM
> Subject: ISC BIND 9.4.2-P2-W1 is now available
> 
> 
> >
> >     BIND 9.4.2-P2-W1 is now available.
> >
> > This is a WINDOWS-SPECIFIC update to the second security patch for BIND
> > 9.4.2.  It addresses long-standing scalability issues in the socket code
> > for Windows that were exposed by the changes in BIND 9.4.2-P1 and -P2.
> >
> > This release contains no code changes that are not specific to the Windows
> > operating system.  It will compile and run correctly on all supported
> > platforms, but there is no need to upgrade from P2 to P2-W1 unless you
> > are running BIND on Windows.
> >
> > NOTE: Effective immediately, the Windows 2000 and Windows NT operating
> > systems are no longer supported.  This release has been tested and is
> > supported on Windows 2003, Windows XP, and Windows 2008.
> >
> > BIND 9.4.2-P2-W1 can be downloaded from
> >
> >    ftp://ftp.isc.org/isc/bind9/9.4.2-P2-W1/bind-9.4.2-P2-W1.tar.gz
> >
> > The PGP signature of the distribution is at
> >
> >    ftp://ftp.isc.org/isc/bind9/9.4.2-P2-W1/bind-9.4.2-P2-W1.tar.gz.asc
> > 
> > ftp://ftp.isc.org/isc/bind9/9.4.2-P2-W1/bind-9.4.2-P2-W1.tar.gz.sha256.asc
> > 
> > ftp://ftp.isc.org/isc/bind9/9.4.2-P2-W1/bind-9.4.2-P2-W1.tar.gz.sha512.asc
> >
> > The signature was generated with the ISC public key, which is
> > available at <http://www.isc.org/about/openpgp/pgpkey2006.txt>.
> >
> > A binary kit for Windows XP, Windows 2003 and Windows 2008 is at
> >
> >    ftp://ftp.isc.org/isc/bind9/9.4.2-P2-W1/BIND9.4.2-P2-W1.zip
> >    ftp://ftp.isc.org/isc/bind9/9.4.2-P2-W1/BIND9.4.2-P2-W1.debug.zip
> >
> > The PGP signature of the binary kit for Windows XP, Windows 2003, and
> > Windows 2008 is at
> >
> >    ftp://ftp.isc.org/isc/bind9/9.4.2-P2-W1/BIND9.4.2-P2-W1.zip.asc
>    ftp://ftp.isc.org/isc/bind9/9.4.2-P2-W1/BIND9.4.2-P2-W1.zip.sha256.asc
> >    ftp://ftp.isc.org/isc/bind9/9.4.2-P2-W1/BIND9.4.2-P2-W1.zip.sha512.asc
> >    ftp://ftp.isc.org/isc/bind9/9.4.2-P2-W1/BIND9.4.2-P2-W1.debug.zip.asc
> > 
> > ftp://ftp.isc.org/isc/bind9/9.4.2-P2-W1/BIND9.4.2-P2-W1.debug.zip.sha256.as
> c
> > 
> > ftp://ftp.isc.org/isc/bind9/9.4.2-P2-W1/BIND9.4.2-P2-W1.debug.zip.sha512.as
> c
> >
> > Changes since 9.4.2-P2:
> >
> > --- 9.4.2-P2-W1 released ---
> >
> > 2432. [bug] More Windows socket handling improvements.  Stop
> > using I/O events and use IO Completion Ports
> > throughout.  Rewrite the receive path logic to make
> > it easier to support multiple simultaneous
> > requestrs in the future.  Add stricter consistency
> >                        checking as a compile-time option (define
> >                        ISC_SOCKET_CONSISTENCY_CHECKS; defaults to off).
> >
> > 2420. [bug] Windows socket handling cleanup.  Let the io
> > completion event send out cancelled read/write
> > done events, which keeps us from writing to memeory
> > we no longer have ownership of.  Add debugging
> > socket_log() function.  Rework TCP socket handling
> > to not leak sockets.
> >
> > -- 
> > Evan Hunt -- evan_hunt at isc.org
> > Internet Systems Consortium, Inc.
> >
> > 
> 
> 
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