AW: rndc does not work (9.1.1 <--> 9.2.3)

[Danny Mayer]

At 05:02 AM 9/9/2004, Walkenhorst, Benjamin wrote:
> >
> >       rndc 9.[01].x uses omapi.
> >       rndc 9.[23].x used isccc.
> >
> >       No one should be using 9.1.x anymore.
>
>Thanks for clearing this up.
>
>I /*do*/ know that I'm supposed to use a more recent version. However I'm 
>not in charge here. Furthermore, like I said, we are using z/OS, a 
>proprietary IBM-system. BIND is made available for this system by IBM, as 
>part of the "Communications Server" package, and that package uses 9.1.1. 
>I understand IBM works on porting a more recent version, but AFAIK it's 
>not ready, yet.
>I also doubt strongly you could just recompile a more recent version of 
>BIND on that system, or that I would be allowed to do so.
>If I was in charge, I'd deploy an up-to-date BIND (or, more probably, 
>djbdns) on a couple of Linux-LPAR's, but I am not. ;-(
>
>Kind regards,
>Benjamin

The earliest version of BIND 9 that ran on NT was 9.2.0.

Danny