Moving BIND from Solaris to Linux

[Lightner, Jeff]

So in the end you didn't use Ubuntu's package - you rolled your own.   My point was you can do the same on RHEL and most other Linux distros.   That is to say you don't have to use the package provided in any distro's normal repositories - you always have the option of downloading source directly from ISC and compiling it yourself.

FYI:  The OP replied yesterday noting that in fact they are doing as I suspected and migrating various things off Solaris of which BIND is just one.





-----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 Barry S. Finkel
Sent: Tuesday, October 02, 2012 10:47 PM
To: bind-users at lists.isc.org
Subject: RE: Moving BIND from Solaris to Linux

On 10/2/2012 4:26 AM, "Lightner, Jeff" <JLightner at water.com> wrote:
> The reason I did the full discussion is that many shops are moving from proprietary UNIX (Solaris, AIX, HP-UX) or Windows to Linux solutions.    If they are moving much infrastructure but just starting with BIND then he needs to consider what I wrote.
>
> Also I don't really agree that Ubuntu is the best solution.   One could run CentOS which has no subscription fee but is binarily compatible with RHEL then download and compile BIND for it.    In an organization using Solaris they presumably have "professional administrators" and are more likely to find folks with RHEL experience when hiring staff that will fill totally comfortable with CentOS.   If continuity and staffing aren't considerations and this is truly going to be a one off he could use Suse or Slackware or any one of a thousand Linux distros (or even one of the *BSD distros - since BSD is where Solaris came from originally).
>
> If it's a one off "best" is truly subjective.  There are many people
> that detest Ubuntu and many people that love it -though the din from
> the former seems to have overwhelmed the latter since Unity desktop
> and other moves by Canonical:-)
>
When I was managing a DNS server and we wanted to move from Solaris to Ubuntu, I looked at an Ubuntu package.  It contained GeoIP, which we did not need.  And I wanted the latest BIND for DNSSEC support/enhancements.  We had been compiling from source on Solaris, so I continued to compile from source on Ubuntu.  That way I knew EXACTLY what I was running.  I do not remember what other patches were installed by the Debian/ Ubuntu team.
--Barry Finkel
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