Bind 9.0.0 on Windows platforms..

[David R. Conrad]

Danny,

>If it IS going to be released, why bother with 9.0.0?

BIND version 9 is where we're going to be applying most of our 
resources.  We will continue to maintain BIND version 8 by providing bug 
fix releases.  We may be cutting one more feature release of BINDv8 to make 
v8 work a bit better with v9 and (re-)mainlining the win32 code, but no 
date has been set yet.

On the topic of the win32 code in the mainline, we got burnt pretty badly 
with the BIND 8.2 NT release.  Since the NT port was included in the 
mainline, people (justifiably) assumed it was as fully supported as the 
Unix ports were.  Unfortunately, we didn't (and don't) have folks here who 
speak win32 fluently so when bug reports came in, we weren't able to do 
much with them.  Obviously, this is not a good position for us to be in, so 
we decided to move the NT port over to contrib for the upcoming 8.2.3 
release, possibly reintegrating the NT port into the mainline when we get 
somebody here who can help us support it (anybody want a job?).

As for 8.2.3, right now, we're waiting on some fixes for the IPv6 port from 
the KAME folks.  When that gets integrated in, we'll be cutting 8.2.3-T7B, 
hoping to cut 8.2.3 final soon after.

Hope this clears up any confusion...

Rgds,
-drc
Executive Director, ISC
CTO, Nominum, Inc.