Windows 2000 support....

[Danny Mayer]

Vincent Poy wrote:
> On Thu, Sep 11, 2008 at 9:30 AM, Danny Mayer <mayer at gis.net
> <mailto:mayer at gis.net>> wrote:
> 
>     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.
> 
> Would this work for the ConnectEx() for NT4/2000?
>  
> http://www.blushingpenguin.com/mark/blog/?page_id=4 
> 
> Cheers,
> Vince

No, that has a LGPL license. I haven't looked at the code that he
implemented.

Danny