Update release questions

Danny Mayer mayer at gis.net
Sun Jun 6 22:22:57 UTC 2004


At 02:42 PM 6/6/2004, Mike B wrote:
>We are currently running Bind 8.3 on Windows.  I'd like to upgrade to
>a later release.
>
>I took a look and it looks like the later releases don't have
>Bindctrl....can you use the older version of this program on the new
>releases?  Is there a reason why this was taken out of the build?

Yes, it's replaced by rndc in BIND 9 which has a lot more capabilities
than BINDCtrl and BINDCmd. There's not much advantage for them
over using the Services control panel or using the command-line
net start named and net stop named.

Windows couldn't use ndc like Unix but that's not the case with rndc
which can also be used for control from a different system.

>Is 8.4.5 the last version with Bindctrl?  Is there any disadvantages
>of being at that release instead of a 9.x release?

As long as there's a BIND 8 release BINDCtrl will be there. BIND 8.4.5
is the latest release though it's still a release candidate.

There are plenty of advantages of BIND 9 over BIND 8. There are
architectural issues with the Windows port of BIND 8 that have never
been fully resolved. The BIND 9 issues are fixed with the latest
release and should be stable.

Danny

>thanks in advance...
>
>Mike



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