BIND 9.4.2-P2-W1 stops responding

[Vinny Abello]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Mark_Andrews at isc.org [mailto:Mark_Andrews at isc.org]
> Sent: Saturday, September 06, 2008 7:46 PM
> To: Jukka Pakkanen
> Cc: mayer at gis.net; Vinny Abello; bind-users at isc.org
> 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.

Additionally, mainstream support from Microsoft ended in 2005 for Windows 2000 Server. Extended paid for support ends in less than 2 years. You probably should consider upgrading to a newer supported operating system before that time.

http://support.microsoft.com/lifecycle/?p1=7274

-Vinny