I took the ISC 2 day Intro to DNS and BIND class. The instructor made a good point that building from source frees you from the dependance on the distro's package maintainer. As part of the class, we had to compile bind from scratch. It was very straight forward ./configure, make, make install. Options to the configure step allowed customization of the install if needed, but the defaults are pretty good.
In Ubuntu LTS versions, they do not update versions, other than minor revs for bug fixes. I have some that are running Ubuntu 8.04LTS with bind 9.4. I was worried with the recent vulnerability, but they quickly backported the fix. But they're still runniing 9.4. :( I am building new servers to replace them and I'm going with abare bones distro install and adding packages (compilers, etc) as I find I need them. But the servers will be much leaner in terms of what is on them. Perhaps other distros/flavors of *nix handle new versions differently. bind-users-bounces+wbrown=e1b....@lists.isc.org wrote on 01/11/2012 11:50:01 AM: > Now if FreeBSD would just add 9.9 to the ports > collection, it would save me from having to build it by hand.. Confidentiality Notice: This electronic message and any attachments may contain confidential or privileged information, and is intended only for the individual or entity identified above as the addressee. If you are not the addressee (or the employee or agent responsible to deliver it to the addressee), or if this message has been addressed to you in error, you are hereby notified that you may not copy, forward, disclose or use any part of this message or any attachments. Please notify the sender immediately by return e-mail or telephone and delete this message from your system. _______________________________________________ Please visit https://lists.isc.org/mailman/listinfo/bind-users to unsubscribe from this list bind-users mailing list bind-users@lists.isc.org https://lists.isc.org/mailman/listinfo/bind-users