A little baffled by bind 9.14.2 wanting some special python?

[Mukund Sivaraman]

On Wed, May 29, 2019 at 11:09:45AM -0400, Dennis Clarke wrote:
> On 5/29/19 2:22 AM, Michał Kępień wrote:
> > > For reasons unknown the configure process blows up even if I specify
> > > the option --disable-python and in the config.log I see :
> > 
> > The option is actually called --without-python; the fix for that mistake
> > is already committed:
> > 
> >      https://gitlab.isc.org/isc-projects/bind9/merge_requests/1964
> > 
> > Apologies about the confusion.
> > 
> 
> Thanks but won't matter much anyways. Time to shutdown all the Solaris
> systems and move to FreeBSD or similar.  Sadly there is nothing that can
> run on these Fujitsu sparc boxes I have.  Nothing that I know of.

From: https://www.isc.org/downloads/software-support-policy/

> BIND 9.11 is an Extended upport version, and will be supported until
> December, 2021

which is more than 2 years from now. Unless you need a feature from 9.12
and above, 9.11 is still a good choice if you were able to build it on
your Solaris platform. ISC maintains its older non-EOL BIND versions
well (and 9.11 is likely more stable too from the years of public's
usage it has got).

+1 on deciding to move from Solaris to a BSD or Linux though. ;)

		Mukund