filter-aaaa-on-v4 not available in Windows binary?

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On Tue, Aug 29, 2017 at 02:12:43PM -0500, pLAN9 wrote:
> I have downloaded the latest 9.11.2 BIND running on Windows 10 and 
> have set up a successful caching-only server. When I try to add 
> "filter-aaaa-on-v4 yes" to the global "options" section of 
> named.conf, the Windows BIND service fails to start, with an event 
> viewer log entry stating a "Parsing error" on the line containing 
> the filter statement.

I suspect you have a syntax error, or maybe non-ASCII characters
in your named.conf.

> Does this mean I will have to manually compile BIND on WIndows
> for this option to work?

There is no specific compile flag to enable that feature, so no.

> I assume that I don't need a full version of Visual Studio
> to compile, the free "Community" edition of VS 2017 will work?

I think the Knowledge Base has an article on compiling BIND for 
Windows.  But again, I doubt that could be the problem.
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