BIND 9 windows XP builds

[Paul Kosinski]

I can see somebody running XP for some "legacy" software that doesn't
run nicely on newer versions of Windows, but I would think it extremely
risky to have such a machine connected to the Internet.

Maybe whoever runs BIND on XP should consider converting that machine to
Linux, and running BIND on Linux?


On Mon, 17 Apr 2017 20:30:43 +0000
Evan Hunt <each at isc.org> wrote:

> Greetings,
> 
> For some time ISC has been providing three Windows builds for each
> release of BIND 9: x64, win32, and windows XP.
> 
> Windows XP is well past its end of life and is no longer receiving
> security updates.  I'd like to stop supporting it after the upcoming
> maintenance release, but it's been pointed out to me that a
> significant number of people -- many thousands -- are downloading the
> XP version every time we put out a new release.
> 
> This information surprised me. If you're one of those people, would
> you mind responding, either on or off the list, to discuss it?  Why
> are you using XP to run a name server?  Is it possible you're still
> using the XP build out of inertia, but your OS would work equally
> well with the win32 build?  If you're really still running XP, do you
> have a plan for transitioning to something newer?
> 
> We want to support the needs of our users, but to do that we have to
> understand those needs, so please let us know what yours are.  Thanks,
> 
> --
> Evan Hunt -- each at isc.org
> Internet Systems Consortium, Inc.
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