BIND 9.4.2-P2-W1 stops responding

[Danny Mayer]

Jukka Pakkanen wrote:
> Ok, if it's not doable on W2K then it's not... just very unfortunate.
> Guess there are quite a few W2K servers running BIND DNS, and upgrading
> those to W2K3 is not always easy or cheap.
> 
> Jukka
> 

It was not as simple as that. The problem was also a matter of ongoing
maintainability of the code. While the code could have been written so
that it would continue to work with Windows 2000 it was concluded that
it would be difficult to do so in a way that would provide the
reliability required. ConnectEx() is only available in Windows XP and
later and the only connect type functions available are connect() and
WSAConnect(), neither or which provided the needed functionality.

While all this doesn't help you much, you might want to consider running
Windows XP as a cheaper alternative to Windows 2003 though I do
recognize that you may be doing other things on the box and it may not
provide sufficient throughput for your purposes.

Danny
> ----- Original Message ----- From: "Mark Andrews" <Mark_Andrews at isc.org>
> To: "Jukka Pakkanen" <jukka.pakkanen at qnet.fi>
> Cc: <mayer at gis.net>; "Vinny Abello" <vinny at tellurian.com>;
> <bind-users at isc.org>
> Sent: Sunday, September 07, 2008 2:46 AM
> Subject: Re: BIND 9.4.2-P2-W1 stops responding
> 
> 
>>
>>> Would have been very nice to know immediately when you made the
>>> decision of
>>> dropping Windows 2000 users from your supportes list... we have been
>>> patiently waiting for the fixes to the completely broken windows code
>>> for
>>> weeks, since it was supposed to come "very soon" and "in days"... and
>>> now we
>>> get a lakonic statement "W2K is no longer supported"... :(
>>>
>>> In a couple of weeks the ISC BIND has gone from "the best and most
>>> trouble
>>> free piece of software ever" to "useless" to us. That's sad.
>>>
>>> Well, need to start looking for other options, upgrading all our, and
>>> our
>>> clients DNS servers to W2K3 just to support the DNS software really
>>> is not
>>> an option.
>>>
>>> Jukka
>>
>> Well if you can convince Microsoft to back port the function
>> we need to use to stop named dieing to W2K then it will
>> work with W2K.   W2K came off the suport list because we
>> needed functionality that was not available in W2K.
>>
>> You didn't get any advance notice because the fix is only
>> a couple of days old.  Unlike the unix based ports the
>> Winsock code is still evolving under Windows to fill in
>> missing bit of functionality.
>>
>> Mark
>> -- 
>> Mark Andrews, ISC
>> 1 Seymour St., Dundas Valley, NSW 2117, Australia
>> PHONE: +61 2 9871 4742                 INTERNET: Mark_Andrews at isc.org 
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