RHEL5 BIND in PROD

[Baird, Josh]

For new deployments, I would likely choose RHEL6 over RHEL5; unless you
have a compelling reason to run RHEL5.  RHEL6 includes BIND 9.7.0.  You
mention that you would like to keep your DNS boxes "appliance" like.  If
this is the case, rolling out source code and compiling on each box may
not be the best solution for you.  If you decide to compile your own
BIND, I would look at rolling RPM's for them to make deployment and
upgrades easier.  Also, keep in mind that while RHEL BIND versions will
never be cutting-edge/brand-new, security patches are backported into
them.

Hope this helps.

Josh

-----Original Message-----
From: bind-users-bounces+jbaird=follett.com at lists.isc.org
[mailto:bind-users-bounces+jbaird=follett.com at lists.isc.org] On Behalf
Of Mike Diggins
Sent: Tuesday, March 15, 2011 9:45 AM
To: bind-users at isc.org
Subject: RHEL5 BIND in PROD


I'm about to transition my name servers from Solaris 10 to RedHat Linux 
5.6. I'm debating whether to compile BIND directly from source as I 
usually do or use one of the RHEL packages, likely the newly released 
9.7.0-6.P2. I would like to make our DNS a little more appliance based
to 
ease some of the support burden. I'm also concerned with stability over 
new features. I'm interested to know what others are doing.

-Mike
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