Caching Nameserver and BIND RPM Compatibility

[Mike Hoskins (michoski)]

-----Original Message-----
From: Asai <asai at globalchangemusic.org>
Date: Friday, July 11, 2014 at 12:56 PM
To: "bind-users at lists.isc.org" <bind-users at lists.isc.org>
Subject: Caching Nameserver and BIND RPM Compatibility

>Greetings,
>
>We're setting up caching-nameserver on an existing BIND instance. The
>version of BIND is 9.7. Is there a specific compatible version of
>caching-nameserver RPM that's compatible with 9.7?  The latest one
>available in the yum repos on this particular server (CentOS 5.8) is
>9.3.6-20.P1.el5_8.6

In general I don't think you have to be too concerned about compatibility.
 One exception I know of is the default zone format change when moving to
the latest BIND versions:

https://lists.isc.org/pipermail/bind-users/2012-May/087554.html

I'm sure others will call out points I've missed.

Assuming you just use upstream vendor repos to update, the latest
caching-nameserver should have relevant fixes backported by now and will
be based on the same major release in terms of functionality (how
RedHat/CentOS generally do things)...

I'd still suggest moving to the latest BIND version.  The config is
straight-forward, you have many templates from the 'Net as well as a
reference in the caching-nameserver files, and you can generate your own
RPMs easily if this is large-scale and building from source doesn't make
sense.

http://www.cymru.com/Documents/secure-bind-template.html

http://www.five-ten-sg.com/mapper/bind