On Mon, Sep 8, 2008 at 7:41 PM, Mark Andrews <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > On Tue, 9 Sep 2008, Mark Andrews wrote: > > > > >> Yeah aint that a nice kickinthepants... Sorry no new bind for yous if > > >> you arent made of moneybags and running the latest windoze! Guess we > > >> will start looking at djbdns, it didnt have the bugs in the first > > >> place. Or switch back to windozedns.. oh no.. did I say that?? > > > > > >> disgruntled_used_to_be_bind_user > > > > > > Firstly I don't call XP or W2K3 the lastest versions by any > > > measure. There were some fixes that we would have liked > > > to have applied that required Vista or later. Now that > > > change would have been forcing you to go to the latest > > > Windows versions. Instead we found a sub-optimal workaround. > > > We just wern't able to find a workaround for this issue and > > > we looked. > > > > > > If you are worried about money there are lots of free OS's > > > available which will run on your existing hardware which we > > > do support. > > > > I would say for smaller operations, the problem can be when you have "the > > windows server" which is also configured as your DNS server (and often, > is > > also possibly your AD server. But because of the functions of that > > server and its ip, you cannot just supplant the whole machine. Nor can > > you easily shift everyone overnight to use a new DNS server. > > Actually it usually is pretty easy to shift everyone by > just updating the nameservers in the DHCP leases. > > > In this situation, the better thought might be to run your BIND server on > > some other OS -- Linux or BSD are both wonderful possibilities, and if > you > > need to click stuff to administer is, webmin is wonderful -- and have the > > DNS server on your windows machine forward all its queries to that, which > > should serve to somewhat-effectively isolate you from this issue. > > > > As for Windows 2000 being dead, MS has not completely abandoned it, and > in > > fact there are even some cases where they will still provide new licenses > > for it (such as schools with donated hardware) -- there SHOULD BE a > > supported fix from Microsoft, but 2k is in "extended support" right now > -- > > which means to get anything but the barest of updates (even so much as a > > daylight savings time fix) you gotta pay. And mostly through the nose. > > > > Heck, even a DSL (Damned Small Linux) instance can run under a windows > > machine and run your BIND code. > > Which is one solution. > > > Hope any of these may help you, > > > > -Dan > > > > -- > > > > --------Dan Mahoney-------- > > Techie, Sysadmin, WebGeek > > Gushi on efnet/undernet IRC > > ICQ: 13735144 AIM: LarpGM > > Site: http://www.gushi.org > > --------------------------- > > > -- > Mark Andrews, ISC > 1 Seymour St., Dundas Valley, NSW 2117, Australia > PHONE: +61 2 9871 4742 INTERNET: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >
The other solution is to keep Windows 2000 and run BIND under FreeBSD/Linux in a VM under VMWare or something. Cheers, Vince
