BIND8 entering end of life; changes to ftp.isc.org (affects mirrors)

Paul Vixie vixie at sa.vix.com
Sun Aug 12 23:29:24 UTC 2007


Chris Thompson <cet1 at hermes.cam.ac.uk> writes:

> >if you are running BIND8 (or BIND4), you should upgrade to BIND9.
> 
> Are you going to tell b.root-servers.net?
> 
> $ dig +noall +answer txt chaos version.bind @b.root-servers.net
> VERSION.BIND.           0       CH      TXT     "8.4.1-REL"

i have.

> (OK, sometimes it says 9.3.2 instead, but at least some of the 
> anycast endpoints are apparently still running BIND 8 ...)

since version numbers are deliberately spoofable, i suggest using fpdns.
-- 
Paul Vixie



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