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Dennis G. Wicks

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Apr 10, 2008, 10:40:08 AM4/10/08
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Greetings;

I was just doing some reading about DNS and came across
a reference to bind9. I find that there are packages
for both a bind and a bind9 in the dist. What is the
difference between them? Any particular preferences?

TIA!
Dennis


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Sven Joachim

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Apr 10, 2008, 11:00:25 AM4/10/08
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Hello Dennis,

On 2008-04-10 16:37 +0200, Dennis G. Wicks wrote:

> I was just doing some reading about DNS and came across a reference to
> bind9. I find that there are packages for both a bind and a bind9 in
> the dist. What is the difference between them?

The bind package includes version 8 of the nameserver, bind9 version 9.

> Any particular preferences?

Definitely you should use bind9, the bind package is deprecated. It has
already been removed from testing and unstable, will not be part of the
next Debian release and has an outstanding security bugน.

Sven


น http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=442910

Dennis G. Wicks

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Apr 10, 2008, 1:20:16 PM4/10/08
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Sven Joachim wrote the following on 04/10/2008 09:55 AM:
> Hello Dennis,
>
> On 2008-04-10 16:37 +0200, Dennis G. Wicks wrote:
>
>> I was just doing some reading about DNS and came across a reference to
>> bind9. I find that there are packages for both a bind and a bind9 in
>> the dist. What is the difference between them?
>
> The bind package includes version 8 of the nameserver, bind9 version 9.
>
>> Any particular preferences?
>
> Definitely you should use bind9, the bind package is deprecated. It has
> already been removed from testing and unstable, will not be part of the
> next Debian release and has an outstanding security bug¹.
>
> Sven
>
>
> ¹ http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=442910
>
>

Sven,

Thanks for that quick response!
Probably saved me a ton of grief!! :-)

MANY THANKS!!
Dennis

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