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<body><div class="gmail_quote">On November 9, 2020 7:18:03 AM UTC, Rob McEwen <rob@invaluement.com> wrote:<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); padding-left: 1ex;">
<p>Several weeks ago, Mark Andrews gave me an excellent suggestion
about a particular BIND feature, but it is a somewhat recent
feature that started to exist on a version of BIND that isn't yet
distributed in the default/main BIND distributions for many of the
most common linux-based operating systems. I think the particular
feature that was mentioned - came into existence around BIND 9.13?
Unfortunately, many of the major linux operating systems haven't
reached 9.13 yet. So, for example, I'm currently trying to upgrade
a Debian server to a more recent version of BIND - 9.16 - and I
saw the following pages:</p>
<p><a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://packages.debian.org/sid/bind9">https://packages.debian.org/sid/bind9</a></p>
<p><a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://www.isc.org/blogs/bind-9-packages/">https://www.isc.org/blogs/bind-9-packages/</a><br>
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<p>But I can't seem to find any simple way to do this - or maybe I
missed something on that page? - from what I've seen, for Debian,
it requires that the BIND source code (and various dependencies)
be downloaded, and then BIND has to be compiled. Or so it seems. I
tried that, but kept running into errors - something about
"Libressl not found" - even though I really did already have the
SSL package installed that it said it needed. It was a
downward-spiral mess I couldn't seem to resolve.<br>
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<p>So here is the question - is there an <b><i>easier/simpler</i></b>
way to get the most common linux operating systems (Debian,
Ubuntu, CentOs, etc) - to a later version of BIND - beyond what
auto-installs when you issue a command like "apt-get install
bind9" - but <i>without</i> having to download and compile the
source code?<br>
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Rob McEwen, invaluement
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</blockquote></div><br clear="all">What you are looking for is Debian Backports:<br><br><a href="https://backports.debian.org/">https://backports.debian.org/</a><br><br>Stable (Buster) Backports has v9.16.6 <br><br><a href="https://packages.debian.org/buster-backports/bind9">https://packages.debian.org/buster-backports/bind9</a><br><br>It's built and maininted by:<br><br><a href="https://tracker.debian.org/pkg/bind9">https://tracker.debian.org/pkg/bind9</a><br><br>-Jim P.</body></html>