9.2.3rc3(?) Release Questions

Danny Mayer mayer at gis.net
Thu Sep 18 00:51:16 UTC 2003


At 04:14 PM 9/17/03, Joseph S D Yao wrote:
>On Wed, Sep 17, 2003 at 11:12:10AM +0100, Matchstick wrote:
> > I'm pretty new to running BIND and I may be missing something important
> > but I have 2 questions about the lastest release of Bind.
> >
> > Firstly, a general question: what is the correct version number ?
> > The title of the release announcement refers to 9.2.3rc3 but all the
> > references and URLs in the body refer to 9.2.3rc2 (and I cant find any
> > rc3 files on the ftp.isc.org)
> > I'm guessing 9.2.3rc3 was a typo but can anyone confirm this.
> >
> > Secondly and win32 specific: assuming the reference to 9.2.3.rc2 was a
> > type has the win32 9.2.3rc2 binary release on ftp.isc.org actually been
> > updated.
> > I've just installed it and it's reporting it's version number as
> > 9.2.3rc1 (I'd updated directly from 9.2.2) and still seems to be
> > resolving unlisted domains to verisigns wildcard address.
> >
> > Again apologies if I'm talking rubbish or I've missed something obvious.
> >
> > --
> > Contact Address matchstick a t oofg d o t com
> > "The wages of sin are death... but the hours are good and the perks are
> > fantastic."
>
>The hoped-for future version number is 9.2.3.  The "rc3" means release
>candidate 3.  I find that rc2 is dated 17 September, and I find no
>release notice for rc2 in between rc1 and rc3.  So it seems that your
>guess that the "rc3" is a typo for "rc2" is likely to be correct.
>
>MSW ports always happen later [so far].

That hasn't been true for at least two years.

Danny

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