Ok, if it's not doable on W2K then it's not... just very unfortunate. Guess there are quite a few W2K servers running BIND DNS, and upgrading those to W2K3 is not always easy or cheap.
Jukka ----- Original Message ----- From: "Mark Andrews" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Jukka Pakkanen" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Cc: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; "Vinny Abello" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; <[email protected]> Sent: Sunday, September 07, 2008 2:46 AM Subject: Re: BIND 9.4.2-P2-W1 stops responding > >> Would have been very nice to know immediately when you made the decision >> of >> dropping Windows 2000 users from your supportes list... we have been >> patiently waiting for the fixes to the completely broken windows code for >> weeks, since it was supposed to come "very soon" and "in days"... and now >> we >> get a lakonic statement "W2K is no longer supported"... :( >> >> In a couple of weeks the ISC BIND has gone from "the best and most >> trouble >> free piece of software ever" to "useless" to us. That's sad. >> >> Well, need to start looking for other options, upgrading all our, and our >> clients DNS servers to W2K3 just to support the DNS software really is >> not >> an option. >> >> Jukka > > Well if you can convince Microsoft to back port the function > we need to use to stop named dieing to W2K then it will > work with W2K. W2K came off the suport list because we > needed functionality that was not available in W2K. > > You didn't get any advance notice because the fix is only > a couple of days old. Unlike the unix based ports the > Winsock code is still evolving under Windows to fill in > missing bit of functionality. > > Mark > -- > Mark Andrews, ISC > 1 Seymour St., Dundas Valley, NSW 2117, Australia > PHONE: +61 2 9871 4742 INTERNET: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
