BIND 9 windows XP builds

[Reindl Harald]

Am 18.04.2017 um 19:22 schrieb Darcy Kevin (FCA):
> Unspoken and false assumption: that every machine running BIND is connected to the Internet.
> 
> I'm no fan of old, broken Microsoft OSes (or even the newer ones, for that matter), but let's be clear here: BIND is for anyone who doesn't want to maintain a "hosts" file. "Connected to the Internet" is a much smaller subset of *that* set.

but you hardly need a full featured bind for that usecase...

just setup whatever container/vm running dnsmasq which can even use a 
hosts-file as source and likely there is something similar and tiny 
available for windows native too


> -----Original Message-----
> From: bind-users [mailto:bind-users-bounces at lists.isc.org] On Behalf Of Paul Kosinski
> Sent: Monday, April 17, 2017 9:08 PM
> To: bind-users at lists.isc.org
> Subject: Re: BIND 9 windows XP builds
> 
> I can see somebody running XP for some "legacy" software that doesn't run nicely on newer versions of Windows, but I would think it extremely risky to have such a machine connected to the Internet.
> 
> Maybe whoever runs BIND on XP should consider converting that machine to Linux, and running BIND on Linux?
> 
> 
> On Mon, 17 Apr 2017 20:30:43 +0000
> Evan Hunt <each at isc.org> wrote:
> 
>> Greetings,
>>
>> For some time ISC has been providing three Windows builds for each
>> release of BIND 9: x64, win32, and windows XP.
>>
>> Windows XP is well past its end of life and is no longer receiving
>> security updates.  I'd like to stop supporting it after the upcoming
>> maintenance release, but it's been pointed out to me that a
>> significant number of people -- many thousands -- are downloading the
>> XP version every time we put out a new release.
>>
>> This information surprised me. If you're one of those people, would
>> you mind responding, either on or off the list, to discuss it?  Why
>> are you using XP to run a name server?  Is it possible you're still
>> using the XP build out of inertia, but your OS would work equally well
>> with the win32 build?  If you're really still running XP, do you have
>> a plan for transitioning to something newer?
>>
>> We want to support the needs of our users, but to do that we have to
>> understand those needs, so please let us know what yours are.  Thanks