RHEL5 BIND in PROD

[Lightner, Jeff]

If these are new servers that are only for BIND I'd suggest going with
RHEL6 rather than 5.6 - RHEL releases have very long life cycle.   When
I get a spare moment I intend to update our servers to RHEL6.

We use the RHEL5 BIND package for the reasons you give.  However, the
way RedHat does things is they go with a base release from upstream
(e.g. 9.3 is default for RHEL5.x) then backport security and bug fixes
from later base releases into that.   This causes confusion because
people will post here that they're using 9.3 which makes it look like
they aren't paying attention to later updates and all.  If you like the
latest greatest you could build your own but as I once said to the folks
at RedHat:  "If I have a dedicated server that only runs BIND and I have
to build my own why should I pay for a subscription based Linux?".   

As you note they now have (as a "bug" request) a later version of the
base release available in RHEL 5.x but that isn't the one you'll get
updates for with yum.   I've suggested to RedHat that they do as they
did with Java where they made different base releases (e.g. Java 1.4.2,
Java 1.6.0) and provide updates for whichever (or both) you choose to
use.   

-----Original Message-----
From: bind-users-bounces+jlightner=water.com at lists.isc.org
[mailto:bind-users-bounces+jlightner=water.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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