Windows 2000 support....

Danny Mayer mayer at gis.net
Thu Sep 11 16:30:50 UTC 2008


SpamList wrote:
> I was reading through the release notes on the latest updates to BIND 
> 9.4.x, and noticed that there is a note in there that Windows 2000 is no 
> longer being supported.
> 
> This leads me to two questions:
> 
> 1) Does this mean that there are OS or API level features now being used 
> in BIND that are not available on Windows 2000,

Yes. ConnectEx() is not available prior to Windows XP.

 or does this simply mean
> that ISC and their associated testers are no longer running tests on the 
> older OS?
> 

No.

> 2) What is the latest version of BIND that *is* supported on Windows 2000?
> 

None.

Danny
> I've still got Windows 2000 deployed, and I'm not in a position to 
> update those servers at the moment, so I need to find out which 
> version(s) of BIND I can still use.
> 
> Thank you for any information or assistance.
> 
> 
> 



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