BIND 9.4.2-P2-W1 stops responding

[Mark Andrews]

> On Tue, 9 Sep 2008, Mark Andrews wrote:
> 
> >> Yeah aint that a nice kickinthepants... Sorry no new bind for yous if
> >> you arent made of moneybags and running the latest windoze!  Guess we
> >> will start looking at djbdns, it didnt have the bugs in the first
> >> place. Or switch back to windozedns.. oh no.. did I say that??
> >
> >> disgruntled_used_to_be_bind_user
> >
> > 	Firstly I don't call XP or W2K3 the lastest versions by any
> > 	measure.   There were some fixes that we would have liked
> > 	to have applied that required Vista or later.  Now that
> > 	change would have been forcing you to go to the latest
> > 	Windows versions.  Instead we found a sub-optimal workaround.
> > 	We just wern't able to find a workaround for this issue and
> > 	we looked.
> >
> > 	If you are worried about money there are lots of free OS's
> > 	available which will run on your existing hardware which we
> > 	do support.
> 
> I would say for smaller operations, the problem can be when you have "the 
> windows server" which is also configured as your DNS server (and often, is 
> also possibly your AD server.  But because of the functions of that 
> server and its ip, you cannot just supplant the whole machine.  Nor can 
> you easily shift everyone overnight to use a new DNS server.

	Actually it usually is pretty easy to shift everyone by
	just updating the nameservers in the DHCP leases.
 
> In this situation, the better thought might be to run your BIND server on 
> some other OS -- Linux or BSD are both wonderful possibilities, and if you 
> need to click stuff to administer is, webmin is wonderful -- and have the 
> DNS server on your windows machine forward all its queries to that, which 
> should serve to somewhat-effectively isolate you from this issue.
> 
> As for Windows 2000 being dead, MS has not completely abandoned it, and in 
> fact there are even some cases where they will still provide new licenses 
> for it (such as schools with donated hardware) -- there SHOULD BE a 
> supported fix from Microsoft, but 2k is in "extended support" right now -- 
> which means to get anything but the barest of updates (even so much as a 
> daylight savings time fix) you gotta pay.  And mostly through the nose.
> 
> Heck, even a DSL (Damned Small Linux) instance can run under a windows 
> machine and run your BIND code.

	Which is one solution.
 
> Hope any of these may help you,
> 
> -Dan
> 
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