I received many responses all saying that BIND-8 is the way to go. The
specific differences are:
-- 8 does much tighter Plausibility Tests on the Data (both yours,
which will force you to clean up your DNS RRs, and the Data
received from other Nameservers)
-- 8 will send NOTIFYs from Primaries (now "Masters") to Secondaries
(now "Slaves"), rather than having the Secondaries time out or
get kill -HUP'd to update the Data
-- 8 has generally more Config Features, or Switches moved from
compile-Time to Runtime
--Version 8 is more configurable and has much better security.
--Bind v8.1.2 (and later versions) will be used if/when IP v6 gets
going.
It will also be getting more features, etc. Bind v4.9.7 is static
unless
there is a problem (probably only security) that needs to be fixed. Note
that I think that bind v4.9.x will also do IPV6......I could be wrong.
--Bind v4.x uses /etc/named.boot. Bind v8.1 uses /etc/named.conf and is
much more configurable.
There is a great change in syntax in the named.conf file *but* the
actual named.* files are still the same. There is a perl script
included in the v8 archive which will convert your named.boot file to
named.conf.
-- DNS Dynamic Updates (RFC 2136).
DNS Change Notification (RFC 1996).
Completely new configuration syntax (and
HTML docs for same).
Flexible, categorized logging system
(blackhole lame delegations!).
IP-address-based access control for queries,
zone transfers, and updates that may be
specified on a zone-by-zone basis.
More efficient zone transfers (no fork() on
outbound!).
Improved performance for servers with
thousands of zones.
get*by*() functions can now use Sun NIS if
desired/available.
Many bug fixes, including patches for all
known security holes.
Thanks to:
Chris Marble <cmarble@orion.ac.hmc.edu
Rick Niziak <rniziak@kappys.med.iacnet.com>
Rich Snyder <rsnyder@eos.EAST.HITC.COM>
Steve Williams <steve.williams@fnc.fujitsu.com>
Jochen Bern <bern@penthesilea.uni-trier.de>
Marcelo Maraboli <maraboli@dcsc.utfsm.cl>
Khoo Boon Hing <boonhing@ncb.gov.sg>
Rich Kulawiec <rsk@gsp.org>
James Ford <jford@tusc.net>
Karl Vogel <vogelke@c17mis.region2.wpafb.af.mil>
Wales Wong <wawong@ouhk.edu.hk>
-- Jerry Springer Phone: (817) 258-1136 PrimeCo Personal Comm LTD. Fax: (817) 258-1098 8 Campus Circle Email:jspringer@primeco.com Westlake,TX 75081
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